The US Bush knows is not the point
By Dante Chinni
WASHINGTON - There are a lot of angry people in this town this week. Congress is angry that the Bush administration didn't tell them about the pictures of Iraqi prisoner abuse before they aired on television. The president is angry with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for not keeping him apprised on the level of problems in the Abu Ghraib prison. And Mr. Rumsfeld is angry at the "Information Age."
But behind all the hot tempers here about the Iraqi prisoner photos and treatment is more than a little absurdity. Rumsfeld's Friday testimony was a mountain range of preposterousness, so full of peaks that the high point was hard to identify. But it might have come in Rumsfeld's railing against photographic technology.
"People are running around with digital cameras and taking these unbelievable photographs and then passing them off, against the law, to the media, to our surprise, when they had - they had not even arrived in the Pentagon," he said.
Yes, that was the problem. Not the abuse, but the fact that the images of it had been burned onto a disk for quick dissemination. Never mind that the images were months old.http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0511/p09s02-codc.html
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