More from the Department of Other Shoes Dropping
I already wrote last month about the initial Abu Ghraib scandal being propelled by the inevitable release of other photographic and video evidence.
Looks like it’s about to happen again. As =http://politics.slate.msn.com/id/2102373Christopher Hitchens[/url] (of all people) writes in Slate:
It is going to get much worse. The graphic videos and photographs that have so far been shown only to Congress are, I have been persuaded by someone who has seen them, not likely to remain secret for very long. And, if you wonder why formerly gung-ho rightist congressmen like James Inhofe (“I’m outraged more by the outrage”) have gone so quiet, it is because they have seen the stuff and you have not. There will probably be a slight difficulty about showing these scenes in prime time, but they will emerge, never fear. We may have to start using blunt words like murder and rape to describe what we see.Hitchens has been a shameless apologist for the war, so if he’s throwing out warnings like this, the evidence must be both truly awful and just about to hit the airwaves.
I’d advise not reading his full article, though, unless you’d like too much information about Hitchens’ idle daydreams involving Osama bin Laden and pigs. (He does make a worthwhile point, though, about torture being a worthless interrogation technique, as demonstrated by the British experience with Irish Republican Army terrorists. Just, uh, skip over the Osama part.)
Tags: Abu Ghraib, Christopher Hitchens, congress, IRA, Iraq, torture