From:

STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
ON THE SITUATION IN SRI LANKA
AND DETAINEE PHOTOGRAPHS

"Understand, these photos are associated with closed investigations of the alleged abuse of detainees in our ongoing war effort."

Alleged, Mr. President?

"Moreover, I fear the publication of these photos may only have a chilling effect on future investigations of detainee abuse."

What future investigations, Mr. President?

"It's therefore my belief that the publication of these photos would not add any additional benefit to our understanding of what was carried out in the past by a small number of individuals."

There it is again; that small number of bad apples argument, where the argument is accurate; it's just that the wrong apples were punished.

The small number of bad apples are named Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Addington and Yoo, For starters.

They are not named Lynndie England, Charles Graner, Chip Frederick, Thomas Pappas, Javal Davis, Jeremy Sivits, Armin Cruz, Sabrina Harman. For starters.

This is interesting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Provance