Army: No Felony in Release of Corpse Pics ("gore for porn" scandal)

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/09/28/national/w100859D16.DTL&type=printable

Army: No Felony in Release of Corpse Pics

The Army said Wednesday its investigators could not confirm that grisly photographs of purported Iraqi war dead on an Internet site were posted by U.S. soldiers, but the matter has stirred concern at the Pentagon.


Paul Boyce, an Army spokesman, said the Army's Criminal Investigation Division in recent days concluded from a preliminary inquiry that there was insufficient evidence to pursue felony charges against anyone.


"While this may not rise to the level of a felony crime, it's still serious," Boyce said.


Boyce and other officials said that while no criminal investigation would be pursued based on currently available evidence, it remained possible that disciplinary action could be taken against individual soldiers if it can be verified that they used government computers to transmit digital photographs of Iraqi war dead. Such an act could be deemed a violation of Article 134 of the Uniformed Code of Military Justice, which proscribes behavior that undermines good order and discipline or brings discredit to the military.