See No Evil Yet, But Maybe Soon

Matt Welch | September 30, 2005

U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein has ordered the release of 70 presumably sickening detainee abuse photographs and three videotapes by the Pentagon, in its legal battle with the ACLU (which gloats here). Rumsfeld & Co. have 20 days to file the inevitable appeal, so we still won't be seeing them for a while yet.

I explained why I think they'll never see the light of day in April. And I'm curious as hell to read the decision, to see why Hellerstein thinks those other 17 photographs and one videotape sought by the ACLU are just beyond the pale.