Reply #562: You're completely unclear as to what the ACLU is asking for.

[MADem]

The ACLU request doesn't have anything to do with holding higher ups accountable. Further, I don't "think this was all perpetrated by a bunch of NCOs" and if you read my comments on this matter fully, along with the link I provided on this thread, without the urge to "post and not read" you'd realize that.

The ACLU's request is extremely limited. In this filing, they only want the pictures that were attached to specific COMPLETED (yes, your snark aside, "completed") investigations where the perpetrators have already been punished with punishments ranging from reduction in rank to imprisonment and fines. The ruling that the ACLU got from the courts only addressed those COMPLETED investigations at specified sites other than Abu Ghraib. Why don't you go read what the courts granted them? Then you'll have an idea what Obama stiff-armed them on, and you wouldn't have to be all snarky and faux-superior to me for reasons I can't fathom.

While you're getting angry and pissy at me about these photographs, you're ignoring the documents (like the Senate report that I provided a link to--all two hundred and some odd pages) that provide a very clear and unambiguous blueprint for a prosecutorial effort. These photos don't do that--the photos only illustrate behaviors that the Bush administration themselves found "unacceptable" and punished. That's hardly a basis for a prosecution. Without the people up the chain, you got nuttin'--and the four hundred some-odd NCOs were unable or unwilling, for whatever reasons, to point the finger at anyone before they were marched off to jail. There's a link missing--the NCOs can't or won't provide it. For that reason, one has to go UP the chain and see if there's a crack in the armor there. The Senate report is helpful in that regard.

But hey--be dismissive and uninformed--or, as you so charmingly call it, "blind and stupid." It's the New DU paradigm, I guess.