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Abu Ghraib Rape and Abuse Photos Were Not the Ones Obama Wants to Suppress After All

By | 05.31.09 | 2:11 pm

Turns out the story from the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph that the photos the Obama administration is refusing to release, despite a court order to do so, are not the same ones that Maj. Gen. Antonia Taguba said depict brutal rapes of prisoners at Abu Ghraib.

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Censored Photos Reportedly Show Rape, Sexual Abuse of Prisoners

By | 05.28.09 | 9:50 am

The Daily Telegraph reports that some of the photos of prisoner abuse that President Obama has refused to release — after earlier promising to make them public — depict the brutal rape and sexual abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib.

At least one picture shows an American soldier apparently raping

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British Media Rumors Catch Drudge’s Eye, Liberal Ire

By | 03.30.09 | 12:02 am

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It’s after work on Wednesday and the guests are trickling in to the Beacon Bar & Grill near Dupont Circle. Tim Shipman, for two and a half years the Washington correspondent for the United Kingdom’s Sunday Telegraph, is leaving Washington. And Shipman is buying the drinks.

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Fox News Gets Punk’d by Obama Birther

By | 03.10.09 | 2:42 pm

Remember that WorldNetDaily story about how President Obama’s Wikipedia page had been scrubbed of “any mention of the well-publicized concerns [i.e. conspiracy theories] surrounding Obama’s eligibility to serve as commander-in-chief”? Kevin Poulsen at Wired reports that the story was written by one of the very Birthers trying to More…