Posted on 01/01/2005 1:01:01 PM PST by CHARLITE
In yet another example of why journalists are held in such low esteem by most Americans, the Associated Press finds itself under legal challenge from six Navy SEALs and two of their wives over a series of photographs that the news agency published this month. The pictures, taken from a public Web site that was located by an AP reporter using a Google search, seemed to show the SEALs mistreating prisoners. Because the photos carried a date stamp of May 2003, the AP story said, they might have constituted the earliest photographic evidence of prisoner abuse in Iraq.
The problem, according to a lawsuit filed this week in San Diego, is that none of the faces of the SEALs is obscured — making them easily identifiable.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
The AP = Anti-American Propaganda
Good job AP. That's what those guys need...one more reason to kidnap and behead our boys.
Why, oh why don't I get called for jury trial involving crimes like this? Those SEAL's great-grandchildren would have college paid for.
The only abuse here is AP!
Lesson Learned: Spouses do some strange things ;-);-);-)
Very simple response - post the names, addresses, and photos of AP reporters and their editors who wrongly attempted to smear American soldiers/Patriots. Obviously by their own metrics this is allowable and should be expected.
Use the heading "Anti-American reporters use pen to wrongly attack American servicemen." In the body of the report we should mention "Many believe these actions to be treasonous, and recommend the reporters be jailed or hanged." "Many believe these people should be fired from their jobs and shunned by honorable members of society. etc.
Diva's Husband
A while back didn't some demo-wife show up in a press report as being a CIA agent? There were calls then for a full-scale investigation. I wonder how these SEALS will rate?
Good question! Wish I knew the answer.
Yes! "This may be the first photgraphic evidence of an editor replacing the word 'terrorist' with 'insurgent'."
I don't know for sure that it was a public website, that's one thing I've been trying to learn. If it was a private or family website, how did the AP reporter know to go to it to see pictures of the SEALS?
BTW, our family photos are password protected. I haven't heard if these were or not...
The Post article says that there was no abuse in the photos, that the prisoners faces were obscured, that the AP did NOT obscure the faces of the SEALS. The Navy says there is no cause to investigate the SEALS and that the photos show nothing amiss.
I STILL want to know how the AP found out about this--what did the reporter enter as his google search, to get the photos? Who hosted the website? I want more details.
I don't think you can put Navy SEALS prisoner abuse photos in google and come up with a private website.
Even better. Some of these trained Seals should go covert and follow some of these reporters and editors and then post pictures of their afternoon trists and lovers and perverted relationships with hampsters.
Though suing the AP into non-existance is a worthy dream - having to use scumbag lawyers and criminal judges is insulting to these SEALS.
We need to go back a hundred years where if you insult someone that much, you WILL pay the penalty.
It made for a much safer and polite society.
Lawyers & judges have created the crime waves of today.
The article says it's a public website. But let's assume it was a private, family album that was password protected. Well, the AP reporter apparently found it easily enough. While it might be nice to think so, al-Quaeda isn't made up entirely of a bunch of idiots. If AP found the pics, Osama might be able to do it, too. Whoever posted the photos is the one to blame.
This person is responsible for compromising the lives of every man photographed. AP could never have pulled this off without the help of the idiot who posted the photos.
A wife posted the pics. And Osama finding the website and attempting to make use of it is FAR different than some AP reporter finding it and publishing the men's faces.
And if it was password protected, the AP reporter broke the law.
I want to hear more about exactly what the AP reporter went looking for when he went googling--did he have individual SEAL names and google them? What did he put in the search engine? I'm betting the law was broken.
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