Reply #546: To prosecute .... WHAT?

[MADem]

Perhaps you are unclear as to the origin of these pictures. They are from completed investigations, not ongoing ones.

There's nothing left to investigate with regard to these pictures. The people who abused those in the photos have had their day in court already. These are simply attachments to completed investigations--not ongoing ones.

And who prosecuted these individuals? The Bush administration. Years ago.

If you want to go after the Bush administration, these horrible pictures (which the Pentagon says are similar in tone, view and attitude to the ghastly Abu Ghraib photos) will not help the situation.

It's the Bush administration who meted out punishment to the people who did this stuff already.

To "get" the Bush people, you have to go after the people who crafted the guidance that allowed "enhanced interrogation" AKA torture (that the guards in the pictures exceeded), not wave around pictures of victims who have (or their families have) been compensated and likely do not want to be revictimized, or guards who have already been punished.

I do think we need to go after the people who wrote the guidelines that went over the torture line, but rehashing completed investigations isn't the way to accomplish that.