The Other End of the Abu Ghraib Camera

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/opinion/25quinn.html?scp=1&sq=the%20other%20end%20of%20the%20abu&st=cse

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Date: Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 4:27 PM
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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 4:27 PM
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To the Editor:

If the goal is to preserve the dignity of the detainees and victims of Abu Ghraib, the technology is well-established to obscure their identities. Suppressing photos of torture and degrading and dehumanizing treatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib entirely serves rather to obscure the crimes of the Bush administration. President Obama will find that if he persists in the cover up, he will eventually succeed in making these sins his own.

Barry Levine

To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

If the goal is to preserve the dignity of the detainees and victims of Abu Ghraib, the technology is well-established to obscure their identities. Suppressing photos of torture and degrading and dehumanizing treatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib entirely serves rather to obscure the crimes of the Bush administration. President Obama will find that if he persists in the cover up, he will eventually succeed in making these sins his own.

Barry Levine