A_Wanderer
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No, the pictures were taken by the guards in the prison. They were then handed over to the DOD as evidence by Sergeant Joseph Darby who found the pictures, in his own words he thought (of the the abuses) "It violated everything I personally believed in and all I'd been taught about the rules of war." Then the Army investigated the running of the prison in the Taguba report and some 17 soldiers and officers were removed from duty. By April the pics got to the press, the DOD was able to stall the networks from running them for a fortnight due to the operations during that month. It was not a partisan plot, it was the media showing the people abuses commited in Iraq by troops - an important function of a free media is to do this and as long as the government is being questioned, held to account, slandered then you can rest assured that your liberties remain safe.