If true (I have no way of verifying), it's an admission of guilt by the Administration and a desire to cover up any future, heinous acts.
Sontag's piece is basically long-winded, self-flagellating, anti-American garbage (because she refuses to face honestly inherent human brutality, and the difficulties of fighting a really bad, dangerous enemy while being hampered at home by politically correct, morons like herself who refuse to admit the necessity of personal sacrifice) but it does illustrate well the dangers of allowing brutality to reign unchecked.
It's because of these dangers that I prefer a policy of telling Muslims that if they support terrorists and allow them to hide in their midst they will have to pay the price (Fallujuah flattened and all its inhabitants killed) to our present policy of unenending detentions and increasingly brutal "interrogation" (torture). We will be hated - perhaps even more than now - but our actions will be open and upfront and we will be treating our enemies honestly - as enemies - and not dishonestly as "innocent" civilians...which will force them to be honest as well.
Oh I understand thoroughly now. It is okay to bomb the hell out of civilians just not okay to make people stand around naked...Got it. As ever your sense of proportion is out of whack. And the reason for banning the camera phones has more to do with the fact that no prisoners are to be photographed. The photos taken by Graner were illegal and are part of the charges against him. I know you think you are a very special human but in all honesty this is my last post on this stuff to you because you keep repeating the same thing overr and over as if that is the same as dialogue. You do not or will not understand the nature of the enemy and I look forward to seeing you when they come for you