Chris Matthews teases...

[Leroy/negromancer.com]

There is a weekly version of The Chris Matthews Show that the local affiliate (KLFY, Channel 10, Lafayette, LA) carries on Sunday mornings about 3:30 a.m.

This morning, at the very end of the show Matthews left a crazy teaser. Apparently, the ACLU recently won some kind of court ruling that brings them closer to having access to photos of American servicemen actually raping prisoners in, I assume, Iraq.

Has anyone else heard this, or was I coming off a crack high and misunderstood what Matthews said?

[Steven Grant]

First I've heard of it. I'll sniff around...

[NatGertler]

Here (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/27/politics/27abuse.html?) is a piece on the case, although it doesn't mention the specific content of the photos.

[Leroy/negromancer.com]

Thanks, Nat. Just the last paragraph of that article is ominous enough.

[jhauge]

I haven't found anything on the prison rape, but I did find this. Apparently there is video with this scandal.

http://www.blackcollegeview.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/02/25/421f535c67fd2

French senior U.N. official, Didier Bourguet who worked at Goma airport as part of the UN’s $700 million-a-year effort to rebuild the Congo, was discovered to be the leader of an internet pedophile ring which produced three pornographic videos now on sale in the Congo.

[jhauge]

Here's the good news.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/D/DETAINEE_RECORDS?SITE=MNMAN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2005-05-26-19-57-43

A federal judge has told the government it will have to release additional pictures of detainee abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, civil rights lawyers said.

Judge Alvin Hellerstein, finding the public has a right to see the pictures, told the government Thursday he will sign an order requiring it to release them to the American Civil Liberties Union, the lawyers said.

The judge made the decision after he and government attorneys privately viewed a sampling of nine pictures resulting from an Army probe into abuse and torture at the prison. The pictures were given to the Army by a military policeman assigned there.