[snopercod]

I imagine that at some point in the chain, it was "suggested" that nudity, humiliation and domination by women would be "good ways" to soften up these prisoners (why are the media calling them "detainees", anyway?)

And like you, I want to know the etiology of these photos. That will come out at the court martials, I suppose.

[ontos-on]

On the photos, at least, I had the hearings on as I am in my office working, and heard a while ago from General Taguba himself that the photos were not part of an interrogation procedure [to get photos to use for later interrogations] but were all taken with personal individual cameras by the troops themselves, as acts beyond their permitted scope. Interesting. I think that is a big point that it is not a top down problem, but individual few individuals. That is Taguba's view.