jeanne d'arc, over at Body and Soul is doing important important work. if you are a us citizen, you need to know what is being done in your name. if you are not a us citizen you need to know that some of us are still horrified by it.

In October 2003, the ACLU filed Freedom of Information Act requests for documentation on detainees' treatment. A year later, they had thousands of pages of important documents (and they keep on coming), but they were heavily redacted, and there were major gaps. Last fall, a federal judge ordered the government to reveal the redacted sections of the documents, along with 87 photos and 4 videos, taken at Abu Ghraib, that Joseph Darby, the AG whistleblower, turned over.  Congress has seen the photos and videos. According to Lindsey Graham, they show scenes of "rape and murder," although another senator said that although the images showed "inhuman treatment," he did not see anything that rose to the level Senator Graham described. Seymour Hersh says the videos show children being raped.