May 9th, 2004

Those with a political interest in minimizing the extent of the Abu Ghraib horrors and those with a substantive interest in arousing public outrage about abuses in domestic prisons have a common interest in suggesting that the two problems are more or less equivalent in extent or severity.

They aren’t.

I’m sorry Fox Butterfield let himself get taken in.

One Response to “Strange bedfellows dep’t”

  1. Fact-esque says:

    Following the Money from Prisons here to Iraq

    It’s great to see the NYTimes give consideration to the similarities between the torture of prisoners in Abu Ghraib and the torture of prisoners in the United States’ prisons. In Pennsylvania and some other states, inmates are routinely stripped in