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Now: Photos
ByThis may break through the denial:
In a letter from the Justice Department to a federal judge yesterday, the Obama administration announced that the Pentagon would turn over to the American Civil Liberties Union 44 photographs showing detainee abuse of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq during the Bush administration.
The photographs are part of a 2003 Freedom of Information Act request by the ACLU for all information relating to the treatment of detainees -- the same battle that led, last week, to President Obama's decision to release memos from the Bush Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel providing legal justifications for harsh interrogation methods that human rights groups call torture.
(Don't you love that last formulation, by the way? Why can Jake Tapper not write "brutal interrogation techniques that the International Committee of the Red Cross has unequivocally called torture"? Because that would be true but not "balanced"?)
