MSNBC: Pentagon preparing to release as many as 2,000 photos - some depicting torture

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http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/04/24/1906003.aspx

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From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro
*** Torture story rages on: Here are the latest developments in the raging political firestorm over torture and controversial interrogation tactics… U.S. officials tell NBC’s Jim Miklaszewski that the Pentagon and military are preparing to release as many as 2,000 photos -- including several dozen that apparently show alleged prisoner abuse at Guantanamo Bay and other military detention facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan. The photos, which have not been seen publicly, would be the first visual evidence of possible prisoner abuse at Guantanamo Bay, and they are being released in response to a federal lawsuit filed by the ACLU. (Per Mik, one U.S. official said the photos are "not as bad as those from Abu Ghraib,” but "they're not good.")…

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1. What? Were we expecting to see?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=printer_friendly&forum=389&topic_id=5521998&mesg_id=5522616

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2. I'm sure we won't be seeing..

any of that. Thanks for the link!

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3. Shoot

I thought I couldn't afford to renew my ACLU membership. Turns out I can't afford not to.