According to Raw Story, ACLU staff attorney Amrit Singh said in a release, "These photographs provide visual proof that prisoner abuse by US personnel was not aberrational but widespread, reaching far beyond the walls of Abu Ghraib."
The Iraqi prison at Abu Ghraib became infamous after photographs showing Iraqi detainees being humiliated and abused by their US guards were published in 2004.
The latest disclosure "is critical for helping the public understand the scope and scale of prisoner abuse as well as for holding senior officials accountable for authorizing or permitting such abuse," added Singh.
"The Pentagon has noted that it investigates all allegations of detainee abuse, and since 2001 has taken more than 400 disciplinary actions against U.S. military personnel found to have been involved in such abuse," reported the Washington Post.
You remember what happened with the last round of prisoner abuse photos -- all hell broke loose. New photos, along with the release of the torture memos, won't help those standing in the way of torture prosecutions much. According to the article, "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."
If I were on the anti-investigation side of the argument, I'd see this news as being close to the worst-case scenario.
