[mburbank]

Shach, unless you either know something I don't about the particulars of this case, or for some other reason believe there is no possability the charges as they have been portrayed are false, I'd withold Judgement.

Suppose, for the sake of argument, prisoners have been tortured to death, with your superiors knowledge. What might happen to you if you were to report this to your superior, or to try bucking up the chain of command?

Might you not feel a moral obligation to do whatever you could?

Granted, that's purely hypothetical, but in the absence of any evidence at all, I'd urge you to assume innocence until guilt is proven.

All I'm saying, is this smells like a story to me, and a big one. Maybe it's all very simple, very cut and dried, and it will all come out in the wash. But personally, I think the intense secrecy surround camp X-ray has more to do with what's going on there than it does National security. In the absence of evidence, I will assume innocence on the part of our leadership. But it's disturbing to me that our leadership is so heavily invested in maintaining a constant lack of evidence.