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Photos in the LA Times
Have you heard about the photos published in the LA Times yesterday showing 82nd Airborne soldiers posing with the corpses of suicide bombers?
Here's the CNN article. There is a link to the LA Times' website with the photos, be warned.
Obviously this is needs to be addressed by the DoD immediately but what are your thoughts on the soldier that released the photos to the newspaper? He said he did it to bring attention to a "breakdown in leadership". What I've read made no mention of whether he attempted to bring this up to his chain of command.
The DoD also asked that the photos not be published at all. What are your thoughts on that request and the paper's decision to publish some of the photos?
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Re: Photos in the LA Times
You both summarized my feelings.
Ojo, here's a question for you. Let's say the soldier who released the photos is still serving...can he be brought up for discipline as well? I'm not saying "everyone grab a torch and burn him" because he's a whistle blower but I am curious to see if he'd be subject to any type of charge.
It's hard to speculate without knowing the full extent of his involvement. Did he take the photos himself? If not, how did he obtain them? The answers to those questions could make a big difference. If he took the photos, he's just as guilty as the guys who were posing. At the very least, he could absolutely face something administrative (like a reprimand and UIF) for not following the chain of command. Depending how hard his unit wants to push it, I suppose they could do NJP for dereliction in that he knew or should have known it was his duty to report the incident to his chain of command. Based on the article, it sounds like the Soldier "complained about security concerns," but that is not the same as "telling them his peers were posing with body parts."
I can see the DOD's point about the photos potentially inciting violence, but I don't think the LA Times did anything wrong in publishing. Exposing institutional corruption and misdeeds is one of the primary functions of the fourth estate (the press), and the fact that they CAN publish damning information that is true about governmental/military misbehavior is one of the great things about this country.
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I think the guy who released them is a douche.
I don't blame the paper for publishing them. However, I can blame them for publishing them right now. Things are extremely volitile over there right now and they are using the Koran burning and the pics of the Marines who peed on the dead as fuel for their fire. Now, we have given them more fuel. Nothing good will come from this at all.
It isn't always personal cameras. MH's unit has to take cameras with them on every mission. They have to photograph any evidence collected, among other things.
Oh I know...that was part of T's responsibility when they went on missions but I think I'd be less inclined to put evidence of my douchetastic behavior on a military controlled camera vs. my own camera. Then again...I would hope I wouldn't be doing things like this in the first place.