by Jeremy Scahill, 2/16, CommonDreams.org
CNN’s Pentagon
correspondent Barbara Starr should be given some kind of award for the
most outrageously off-target reporting on the newly released photos and
videos of US torture and abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in
Iraq. In her numerous appearances during the morning news cycle on CNN
after the images were first broadcast on Australia’s SBS television,
Starr described what she saw as the “root of the Abu Ghraib prison
scandal” as such:
“Let’s
start by reminding everybody that under U.S. military law and practice,
the only photographs that can be taken are official photographs for
documentation purposes about the status of prisoners when they are in
military detention. That’s it. Anything else is not acceptable. And of
course, that is what the Abu Ghraib Prison scandal is all about.”
What? Here I thought the “scandal” was that the US military was systematically abusing prisoners. [more]