Gen. Taguba Says Telegraph Quoted Him Correctly on Prisoner 'Rape' Photos

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Gen. Taguba Says Telegraph Quoted Him Correctly on Prisoner 'Rape' Photos

Taguba, however, now says that the photos he saw are not part of the ones at the center of an ACLU lawsuit. So where are the ‘rape’ photos Taguba described?

By Jeremy Scahill

Just a day after White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs smeared the entire British media over a damning report in one British paper, Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba says that Britain’s Daily Telegraph quoted him correctly when he told the paper last week he had seen pictures depicting heinous acts commited against prisoners by US personnel that “show torture, abuse, rape and every indecency.” On Friday, Gibbs said “you’re not gonna find many of these newspapers and ‘truth’ within say 25 words of each other.”

While standing by his on-the-record remarks to the Telegraph, Taguba, however, now says that the photos to which he was referring were not among 44 pictures the ACLU is fighting to have released but which the Obama administration has blocked. He told Salon’s Mark Benjamin Friday night, “The photographs in that lawsuit, I have not seen. According to Benjamin, “The actual quote in the Telegraph was accurate, Taguba said — but he was referring to the hundreds of images he reviewed as an investigator of the abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq — not the photos of abuse that Obama is seeking to suppress.”

At present, the Obama administration is blocking the release of some 2,000 photos allegedly depicting prisoner abuse and torture. While many horrifying photos have been published over the years by various media outlets (including Salon), it does not seem that the ones exactly matching Taguba’s descriptions have been publicly revealed. This is what the Telegraph reported: ... http://rebelreports.com/post/115368517/gen-taguba-says-telegraph-quoted-him-correctly-on

[babylonsister]

1. Sounds like they're talking about different photos.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h8Iyf2zjf_sH5GBG32RFbAxWKD9w

Retired US general denies seeing torture pictures

15 hours ago

WASHINGTON (AFP) — A retired US Army general has denied reports that he has seen the pictures of prisoner abuse in Iraq that President Barack Obama is fighting to keep secret.

Britain's Daily Telegraph reported Thursday that retired Army Major General Antonio Taguba, the lead investigator into Abu Ghraib abuse, had seen images Obama wanted suppressed, and supported the president's decision to fight their release.

The paper quoted Taguba as saying, "These pictures show torture, abuse, rape and every indecency."

But Taguba told Salon magazine late Friday that he wasn't talking about the 44 photographs that are the subject of an ongoing American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit that Obama is fighting.

"The photographs in that lawsuit, I have not seen," Taguba said.

The actual quote in the Telegraph was accurate, Taguba said. But he said he was referring to the hundreds of images he reviewed as an investigator of the abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq -- not the photos of abuse that Obama is seeking to suppress.

[boston bean]

2. Again, if Taguba has not seen the 44 photo's how does he know he hasn't seen them? nt

[MADem]

3. He knows he hasn't seen them because he hasn't seen them.

I know I've never been to Kiev because I've never been to Kiev.

The ACLU pics are NOT of Abu Ghraib. That's what seems to be confusing people, here. They are 44 pics that are associated with investigations that happened at detention facilities OTHER than AG in other parts of Iraq as well as Afghanistan.

As for the content, the photos are described in the investigations.