NYT: Lithwick: No smoking gun.

[dand]

It has been four months since the photos from Abu Ghraib came to light, and America still can't decide what to make of them. Yes, they're appalling. But who's to blame? With the release of two new reports this week, we still can't quite connect the torture and abuse to the commander in chief or his defense secretary, we still can't find the smoking gun.

Because there's never going to be a smoking gun.


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/26/opinion/26lithwick.html

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Dragging feet on this

is as telling to the world as the initial shock of the photos. A government that truly condemns such actions would have had resignations and trials long before this, imho. We've lost our moral authority in the world because of the sadism of the guards and the coverups by the politicians.