Reply #11: Privacy arguments are just excuses for cover-up

[daleo]

Most people won't believe these things happened, or equivalently will just shrug them off as "that's war" without seeing the pictures. If privacy is that important, the faces of the victims can just be 'pixallated out', or whatever it is that is done to obscure. This was done to make sure nobody could see (horrors) the genitals of prisoners being humiliated, so it is obviously not a technical problem.

As for the torturers, tough luck. If they were caught doing the same things in civilian life their images would be all over the tabloids. One of the things that helps ensure that this won't happen in the future, is the knowledge that exposure is likely.

Also, as long as the images are not out there, Rush and the others can babble on about "frat hijinks", and Rummy, Bush, et al can go right back to the torturing business.