The ACLU is filing FOIA motions to find out more about the unfolding crimes at Abu Ghraib. This time, they won.
On September 29, a Federal Judge ordered the release of photos and videos of detainee abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, saying that the photos may answer important questions about government accountability. The full ruling is online (where he takes apart the government's reasoning that hiding American war crimes is "National Security").
In order to allow the government to appeal, he gave them 20 days before the court order to release the photos and videos to the public. Well? Where are they?
The ACLU site has a
larger press release from last month, crediting specific lawyers and giving some nice background and better quotes from the judge. However, no sign of the forthcoming pictures, and it's beyond 21 days now. Since then, even
Lyddie England darkly hinted that there's "worse things" than the media already knows.
Google news isn't turning up anything new, and antiwar.com doesn't have any mention of it.
What happened? Where did they go?