Who Are They Protecting?

-Jacob G. Hornberger

The Pentagon and the CIA are opposing the release of photographs that depict the torture and sex abuse of prisoners and detainees while in their custody. The basis for their objection is “national security.”

Their argument goes like this: “Our personnel have done some horrendous things to people in our custody, so horrendous that we can’t even release the photographs that we took of them committing these horrendous acts. If the insurgents and the terrorists learn about the horrendous things we have done to people in our custody, they’ll not only be able to recruit more people to their side, they also will be more motivated to exact revenge on the United States. Therefore, in the interests of national security, we need to keep these photographs secret.”

I confess that I don’t really see the logic of that argument.

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