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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Saturday, December 04, 2004

In the navy...

Here we go again:
The U.S. Navy is looking into whether photographs on the Internet that seem to show Navy SEALs posing with Iraqi prisoners show any evidence of prisoner abuse, Navy officials said.

About 200 photos were posted on a Web site that now cannot be accessed. A senior Navy official said only a few of the pictures seem suspect, and none can be determined to clearly show abuse without knowing the context.

The Associated Press released photos that show what seems to be commandos sitting on hooded and handcuffed detainees, hooded prisoners in the back of a truck with someone's foot on one of the people, a prisoner at gunpoint, a smiling military member with hooded prisoners in a photo "date stamped" May 2003, and U.S. military personnel constraining someone.

The official said pictures may show "inappropriate conduct" -- with members of a SEAL team "hamming it up" -- but that doesn't necessarily equate to abusive behavior.