In its continuing effort to slander America, spread anti-American propaganda and incite further hatred against America, the ACLU has won a lawsuit forcing the Army to release more images from Abu Ghraib. Apparently, the ACLU was on vacation when Newsweek's fake Quran story sparked rioting across the Muslim world.

The ACLU lawsuit is not related a new incident of abuse. The images in question are from the same group of perverted Army reservists from the Maryland-based 372nd Military Police Company who worked the midnight shift and used their quiet time for monstrous recreation. Ringleader Charles Graner, who has been accused of beating his ex-wife and abusing inmates while at his Pennsylvania prison guard job, and his underlings are now being penalized for their rogue activities as a result of an Army investigation launched prior to the public discolsure of this story.

Their deviant behavior is independent of prisoner abuse and standard Army procedure. Graner got Lyndie England pregnant and had a sexual relationship with Megan Ambuhl, both of whom served in his unit. This was a small group of misfits whose base tendencies, when transplanted into an unsupervised environment, became focused on the mistreatment of prisoners they were guarding and, consequently, besmirched the reputation of all U.S. servicemen.

The ACLU and other liberals, however, have such an antipathy towards American military power that they jump at any opportunity to denigrate and hamstring the Pentagon, even (or, perhaps, especially) in a time of war. They have successfully spun the activities of this reserve MP unit at Abu Ghraib into a "torture narrative" and perpetuated this libel against the entire armed forces by making the behavior seem systemic rather than aberrant.

This legal action to publish additional damning photographs of the same incident we've all seen before is intended solely to further damage America's reputation, if not a reflection of gratuitous voyeurism. Knowing the deadly effects of Newsweek's blunder, even if it does not care about the importance of public relations to success in the broader war on terror, the ACLU's desperation to inflame new anger over old incidents of abuse is unconcsionable Again, this is not about suppressing information on new allegations, but simply generating further anger over a worn-out story.