So Philip Gourevitch Can See the Torture Photos, But We Can’t? (The Progressive)

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Matthew Rothschild, May 24, 2009

... In the Sunday Times Week in Review section, Philip Gourevitch, editor of the Paris Review, defends Barack Obama’s decision not to release the torture photos ...

“I saw many more pictures than were ever published in the press, including, I believe, many—if not most—of the photos that president would now prefer that you don’t see,” he writes.

He can see them, but we can’t.

He then congratulates himself for not including the photos in the book he wrote about Abu Ghraib on the debatable grounds that “most of the worst things that happened at Abu Graib were never photographed” ...

http://www.progressive.org/wx052409.html

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1. That's more than odd

I wondered how he got to see some of the places he wrote about in his Rwanda book, too. Like Mobutu Moise Seku's abandoned palace, with all the gold plumbing fixtures intact, and all sorts of incriminating rubbish littering the floors and courtyard. On the flip side, he didn't say a whole lot about some of the U.S. School of the America's connections -- which I might be mistaken about -- that I thought I read somewhere else.