Many of the incriminating photographs appear to have been taken on a digital camera by a soldier in the 372nd Military Police Company who is now facing a court-martial. From there, they appear to have circulated among military personnel in Iraq via e-mail and computer disks, and some may have found their way to family members in the United States. I don't buy this for a minute. All correspondence is checked, is it not?
Just as all marijuana smuggled into the U.S. is checked.
Back in the World War II days of snail mail, when security was taken seriously, all communication was checked and the letters from the front would arrive with portions tediously cut out with razor blades by military censors.
Now, with e-mail access, lap-top computers, image files, CD burners, etc. soldiers can pass on e-mails with a few jpg attachments or pass on 1,000 digital images on a 50 cent 700 MB CD-R as easily as they can pass around a Playboy magazine.
Internet access by our troops has been a great morale booster. However, the use of digital cameras and CD burners in a war zone will have to be one of those issues that will have to be examined and whose possesion may have to be strictly prohibitted.
However, the use of digital cameras and CD burners in a war zone will have to be one of those issues that will have to be examined and whose possesion may have to be strictly prohibittedI agree, as should cell phones. Rumsfeld said we are operating under 20th century rules and regulations, in a 21st Century world. He is correct and all these items need to be confiscated and banned.
By the way WHERE do you suppose is the OUTRAGE at someone RELEASING to the MEDIA, SECRET EVIDENCE, that was to be used at the trial of these suspects. AND speaking of changing rules for a 21st Century world, why does the MEDIA get a FREE PASS, the 1st Amendment needs some changing to EXCLUDE the PRESS from being able to Break the law and violate anyone's rights anytime they want to increase ratings or score political points against an adminstration they despise.