At this point, the one danger would be to turn the photos into some sort of TV “smoking gun”. We can learn nothing new at this point–nothing that can change our fundamental knowledge or our clear duty. If, for a instance, a photo of Titan contractors using an Iron Maiden did or did not surface, would it really make any difference?

The Thugs will attempt to make any new evidence appear out of context and impeachable. We need to reassert the context at every opportunity, so that the enormity of the crime and the corroborative clarity of the mass of evidence remains in the forefront.

I am now skeptical about the Obama adminstration’s motives. But a political insider I know made an interesting point: whatever you think Obama intended, the effect of his actions has been fatal for the Bushites. The way in which the Administration has rolled out the evidence–with great show of reluctance and repeated rounds of suspense and revelation–could almost be designed to build the context mentioned above while fqanning public indignation. Every week or two, the White House sadly acquiesces to the courts (no political witchhunts here) and piles another neatly interlocking layer of damning truth on the existing heap. At this point, witholding anything, even for a few days, increases the perception that it will be damning. At best (from a Thug point of view), the pictures will confirm what we already know.

At this point, my source argued, given the steady revelations and the attempts to implicate the Democaratic Congressional leadership, nobody is going to be able to pull an Iran-Contra Commission and immunize away any hope of prosecution. The game is aleady afoot and the play-along-to-get-along set is running out of options. Even a special prosecutor will be a longshot soon–the ordinary Justice Department processes will have to crank into motion and proceed to the inevitable outcome, whether any of the politicos want such an outcome or not.

IOW, what makes Obama think that “looking forward” and trying to get bi-partisan consensus on legislation is gonna be any easier by not or w/o appointing a Special Prosecutor to look into EITs/Torture? Republicans ALREADY want to thwart his agenda while ironically (and happily..) the electorate by and large doesn’t agree with them.

it’s of the acts inflicting them

Those would be located together with the videos

Look at Obama playing hardball with the British re blocking their legal mandate to investigate the torture of their citizen. Though was it Greenwald who says the top UK dogs also don’t want Obama to say anything else, since they are compromised with the “detainee” abominations. So was it all kabuki theater internationally speaking?

Maybe the Repubs should put up Keifer Jack Bauer and not Gary Sinise for a presidential contender? American fantasy trust (denial) in covert operational integrity will be restored.

But I suspect a lot of these pictures are not merely of the injuries…it’s of the acts inflicting them.

Here’s Nosenko, just one of many examples.

Interrogators from the Soviet Russia division suspected that that Nosenko was a KGB plant and thus Nosenko was seized by CIA officers in Washington and from 1964 to 1967 was held in solitary confinement in a CIA safe house in Clinton, Maryland. Nosenko was also subjected to sensory deprivation and was administered drugs because his CIA handlers believed he was still working in secret for the KGB. Agents also strapped wires to his head, telling him falsely that the device was an electroencephalograph which would allow them to read his mind, while the device was really one that read brainwave patterns. This was a form of psychological intimidation in order to help persuade him to “tell the truth”. He was interrogated for 1,277 days.

We should rush move on? Systemic corruption and degradation that enabled these atrocities? I think serious exploration is deserved.