Pentagon may have up to 2,000 photographs of prisoner abuse

[NightWatcher]

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Pentagon_plans_release_of_up_to_0424.html

The Pentagon will release for the first time 44 photographs depicting prisoner abuse after the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) won a court ruling in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed in 2004.

A "substantial number of other images" are also being processed for release, the Department of Justice wrote in a letter to a US federal court:according to the Guardian, citing an unnamed official, that "substantial number" could be as many as 2,000 photos.

"These photographs provide visual proof that prisoner abuse by US personnel was not aberrational but widespread, reaching far beyond the walls of Abu Ghraib," ACLU staff attorney Amrit Singh said in a release.

[leftstreet]

1. This should really calm down tensions in Pipelinestan n/t

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3. nothing they don't know..

kind of hard to keep a lid on it, when it's your friends and family who have been maimed and dying for years.

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2. I saw some Congressman...

the other day saying what happened at Gitmo, was entirely different from what happened at Abu Ghraib, using the 'few bad apples' defense for Abu Ghraib.