"We're not going to do any more business in the Senate. Nothing's going forward until we get this right." -- Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina

To Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, it's a "life or death bill." Upset that the torture photo suppression amendment he and Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut had jointly offered has now been stricken from the War Supplemental, Senator Graham is saying that a filibuster is on the table. Our dynamic duo are threatening to hold up any and all legislation in the Senate until Congress passes their legislation to prohibit the release of photos showing detainee abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan. Beyond the sheer display of childish petulance, this begs the question, what are they trying to hide?

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In the wake of the torture, pictures, military tribunal fracas, yet more proof that the grand old "liberal media" is much more interested in conflict drama than, you know, reporting and yet more proof that we can't count on them to help protect the rule of law.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090517/ap_o n_an/us_democrats_security_analysis

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I am upset that Obama, who, by the way, I supported during the election and continue to support as President, has caved to those who would hide the torture we conducted in Iraq by not releasing the photographs documenting those activities.

The idea that our position in the world and the opinions of us held by other countries would suffer if these pictures were made visible is a crock. We're in the age of the Internet. Everyone in the world knows what we did and trying to hide the fact actually makes us look worse.

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President Obama will oppose the release of several dozen photos depicting abuse of detainees held in US military custody abroad, reversing his previous position on the grounds that the pictures could inflame anti-American sentiment and endanger US troops. More from the Washington Post.

I make it a point never to blog when angry for fear of saying something that I might later come to regret. I will only limit myself to noting that these photos that likely demonstrate inhuman torture and abuse need to be released and that those who authorized and condoned such barbarity be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law. These are just photos. It is the acts they depict that are the problem. The photos were gathered in the course of dozens of military investigations of prisoner abuse between 2001 and 2006. That the release of these photos will inflame world opinion is self-evident but perhaps those who committed these acts to begin with might have thought of that when they were behaving in ways unbecoming Americans.

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