Republican "People of the Lie" must disgorge the Abu Ghraib child rape photos, videos, Judge rules

lambert at Corrente:

As the Bush administration in the person of Dick “Dick” Cheney yet again uses its standard technique of conveying, through nods and winks, that torture is A Good Thing, and winger operatives helpfully explain the technique to any “young professionals” who want to follow along at home, the horror—Well, let’s just go ahead and use the right word, even if it sounds Shrill—evil done at Abu Ghraib will live on after us for a long, long time. Greg Mitchell:

[US District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein] ruled today that graphic pictures of detainee abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison must be released over government claims that they could damage America’s image. Last year a Republican senator conceded that they contained scenes of “rape and murder” and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said they included acts that were “blatantly sadistic.”

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Gee, I don’t remember any Abu Ghraib prosecutions or convictions for rape and murder. And you’d think, with videotaped evidence, convictions would be pretty easy to get. Readers, am I having a senior moment, or did the rapists and murderers skate?

The ACLU has sought the release of 87 photographs and four videotapes taken at the prison as part of an October 2003 lawsuit demanding information on the treatment of detainees in U.S. custody and the transfer of prisoners to countries known to use torture.

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The photos were among thousands turned over by the key “whistleblower” in the scandal, Specialist Joseph M. Darby. Just a few that were released to the press sparked the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal last year, and the video images are said to be even more shocking.

Videos, eh? Those must be the unreleased tapes of screaming boys being raped that Seymour Hersh heard. Heh, indeedy:

In the same period, reporter Seymour Hersh, who helped uncover the scandal, said in a speech before an ACLU convention: “Some of the worse that happened that you don’t know about, ok? Videos, there are women there. Some of you may have read they were passing letters, communications out to their men … . The women were passing messages saying ‘Please come and kill me, because of what’s happened.’

“Basically what happened is that those women who were arrested with young boys/children in cases that have been recorded. The boys were sodomized with the cameras rolling. The worst about all of them is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking that your government has. They are in total terror it’s going to come out.”

Some “sex ring”, right Senator Shays?

These are not just little ol’ war crimes. This isn’t about Republican pedophiles who are Bush family friends. This isn’t a your typical Republican authoritarian sex scandal. This isn’t gay hookers with White House passes throwing Bush softballs at pressers. We’re talking rape and murder, captured on video.

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