"Who Ya Gonna Trust?"

Uncle $am or some steenkin' Brit newsrag?

Yes, Virginia, the torture piccies are even worse than what's already come out, which are pretty bad already.

The real question that we need to ask ourselves is not just whether Darth Cheney and RedruMsfeld and Poppy's idiot son precipitated torture. We knew that already, and there's already enough solid evidence to lock them away for the rest of their unnatural lives. We threw the book already at some grunts at Abu Ghraib who were just following orders.

But what about these other torturous murders and rapes? Who stuck what where while it was happening? Who stood around and laughed while they made videos? Who watched the videos and enjoyed it all, and archived 'em. And sked for more?

Chances are it's not just the players we already knew about. Chances are this goes much higher, wider, and lower. Chances are there are private contractors who specialize in this sort of thing. And specific clients.

That's what's being covered up. That's why the current White House is asking, who ya gonna believe, us or your lyin' eyes?

Or a General's admission?

...In 2007, shortly after he was forced into retirement, Army Major General Antonio M. Taguba, made a startling admission. During the course of his investigation into the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib Taguba said he saw “a video of a male American soldier in uniform sodomizing a female detainee.”

Taguba told New Yorker reporter Seymour Hersh that he saw other graphic photos and videos as well, including one depicting the “sexual humiliation of a father with his son, who were both detainees.”

The video, as well as photographs Taguba said he saw of U.S. soldiers allegedly raping and torturing Iraqi prisoners, remains in the possession of the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division (CID).

Taguba noted in his voluminous report on the abuses at Abu Ghraib that the photographs and rape video were being withheld by the CID because of their e “extremely sensitive nature” and the Army's ongoing criminal probe...