Anyone concerned about the images of torture and abuse coming out of Abu Ghraib need worry no more. Donald Rumsfeld has got to the heart of the problem. During his testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee he complained,
Thanks to Justin Podur for picking this up.
We're functioning in a -- with peacetime restraints, with legal requirements in a war-time situation, in the information age, where people are running around with digital cameras and taking these unbelievable photographs and then passing them off, against the law, to the media, to our surprise, when they had not even arrived in the Pentagon.Fortunately this will no longer be an issue. He's banned camera phone from all military installations in Iraq and a total ban throughout the US army is in the works.
Thanks to Justin Podur for picking this up.
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