Confirmation that photos show torture and rape

By GottaLaff

This back and forth about the photos is dizzying. And what about the videos that were referred to? My posts about all of this are here, here, here, here, and here.

Now we can add this to the collection:

[Y]esterday, Scott Horton reported that he has confirmed that the photos do, in fact, “depict sexually explicit acts,” including “a government contractor engaged in an act of sodomy with a male prisoner and scenes of forced masturbation,” as well as “penetration involving phosphorous sticks and brooms.” Horton writes further:

A senior military officer familiar with the photos told me that they would likely provoke a storm of outrage if released. … Some show U.S. personnel engaged in sexual acts with prisoners and each other. In one, a female prisoner appears to have been forced to expose her breasts to be photographed. In another, a prisoner is suspended naked upside down from the top bunk of a bed in a stress position. [...]

Still other withheld photographs have been circulating among U.S. soldiers who served in Iraq. One soldier showed them to me, including a photograph in which a male in a U.S. military uniform receives oral sex from a female prisoner.

Horton also obtained what he characterizes as “rarely seen Abu Ghraib torture photos,” which can be viewed here.

It looks like it's time for someone to sort all of this out. Again, IMHO, the ObamAdministration should control the message. Leaks like this are already getting out of hand (as you can see by the number of posts I've done on this subject), and eventually, the photos/videos themselves will make their way out to the public.

Oh, and accurate reporting wouldn't hurt either.