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,...