[billbears]

leaked were part of an ongoing criminal investigation.

Sure it was. Sounds like it was going blazingly well. What were they planning on doing to these soldiers? Letting them get out of the Armed Forces to live a long and happy life and perhaps send them a nasty letter twenty years later?

[cake_crumb]

They were going to court martial those who did the actual abuse. I think they should court martial the idiot running the prison at the time, too.

Are you purposely avoiding anything like verifiable news in order to concoct your conspiracy schemes?

[Miss Marple]

You know, I don't mind discussing this with you, but you are required to be rational. The charges are serious, no one in the military was covering this up, the sole failure was that Rumsfeld didn't alert the president of the seriousness of the charges, and Rumsfeld hadn't even seen the pictures when they were released to the press, because they were EVIDENCE. The soldier's uncle had copies which HE released.

There are specific punishments in the military code for the infractions of which these soldiers are accused. Should they be found guilty, they will be punished. This was well underway before these pictures were released.