More revolting and revealing photos of Abu Ghraib torture have leaked out. The administration has been fighting in court to keep them secret--a stupid, insipid strategy that was always doomed to fail. Here's part of what I wrote last summer, in response to the administration's recalcitrance and then top General Richard Myers saying "riots, violence and attacks by insurgents will result" if the photos are released:
Why didn't the government just release photos back when the scandal broke? It would have been the photo equivalent of a document dump. Instead, we have a second-wave scenario: Time has passed, Abu Ghraib has receded a bit into memory... and now thanks to the administration's genious P.R. strategy, there's a good chance it will be landing on Page One again.
P.S. As somebody who has frequently argued that the torture scandal has been underplayed, I support it landing on Page One again. The issue is in what form. And the photos are just about the most inflammatory form out there. Let me put this another way: In a slightly better world, the administration would have come clean from the beginning. That would have included, among other things: 1) quickly releasing the photos 2) an independent commission to dig into the widespread detainee scandal. The latter would have generated countless headlines, but I doubt any riots.
Let's take it a step further: Who possibily could be surprised that the photos eventually leaked. The fact that the adminitration has tried to hold them back is yet another example of its winning strategy of Reflexive Secrecy. It's the double-whammy: Wrong on principle and wrong on efficacy. Cheney's little incident this weekend, the photos, tendency toward secrecy keeps boomeranging. It's not just an offensive anti-democratic habit, it's a dumb one.
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Posted by: Alban | October 25, 2010 at 03:33 PM