Reply #16: But more pics doesn't change the mess.

[LooseWilly]

It just provides more incentive/excitement for the American public to actually look into, rather than forget about and move on from, the issue.
My argument is that pressing Pelosi works similarly... in that she will feel pressed to look into, rather than letting slide, torture issues... if she's being linked to them.

Though, if Pelosi is being pressed now, and is likely to move to press investigations, then I won't argue the point of the photos being released NOW... because I personally am mostly interested in having them released to wake the public up from their comfortable lethargy on the subject so that they'll be outraged enough to light a fire under someone's ass to do some investigating. If the Republicans are managing that same result by pressing Pelosi... I can wait until there's another lull in interest to have the pictures released. I suspect the ACLU would also be satisfied to have them released later, if there were some indication that the government was doing something about the underlying issues without the need to present them to force action.

I don't, personally, care about cleaning up the mess of who knew what and when... I say let the chips fall where they may. If some Democrats were complicit, let them be swept up in the investigations. I am of the opinion that Pelosi is not involved... but if she is... so be it.
"Nation of Laws" will never be more than just a handy PR phrase, in my opinion, until this is sorted... or rather, if & until this is sorted.