It always seemed to me that Rumsfeld and others have been much sorrier that pictures of the abuse at Abu Ghraib were taken and then published than that the abuse happened in the first place. After all, even if the stories of abuse got out, they still had plausible deniability if there was no real evidence.
So Rumsfeld bans camera phones and digital cameras in the military.
Quoting a Pentagon source, the paper said the US Defence Department believes that some of the damning photos of US soldiers abusing Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad were taken with camera phones.
“Digital cameras, camcorders and cellphones with cameras have been prohibited in military compounds in Iraq,” it said, adding that a “total ban throughout the US military” is in the works.
Great. Problem solved. Right?