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Prisoners

• June 11 -- Abu Ghraib, at the Movies
There's no Abu Ghraib movie out yet, but movie critic Steven Holden wastes no time bringing it up: "Arriving right on the heels of the Abu Ghraib scandal, the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival has a new, uncomfortable resonance for those who habitually regard the United States as remaining above the moral fray."

• June 11 -- Abu Ghraib, on the Tube
The Times keeps Abu Ghraib in the news with a story about a commercial condemning the Abu Ghraib prison abuse, made by "spiritual leaders from different faiths" who all turn out to be liberals.

• June 10 -- Locking Up the Abu Ghraib Offenders
Abu Ghraib month continues on the Times op-ed page, stacked with three op-eds on the prison abuse scandal, two of which advocate a rounding up of offenders.

• June 9 -- Abu Ghraib: First like My Lai, Now Like the Nazis?
First the Times compared Abu Ghraib to the Vietnam massacre at My Lai. Now they're upping the ante: "While nudity as a disciplinary or coercive tool may be especially objectionable to Muslims, they are hardly the only victims of the practice. Soldiers in Nazi Germany paraded naked prisoners in daylight…."

• June 9 -- Laying Blame for Abu Ghraib on Bush
A Times lead editorial, "The Roots of Abu Ghraib," goes all out to link Bush to the Abu Ghraib prison abuse: "Each new revelation makes it more clear that the inhumanity at Abu Ghraib grew out of a morally dubious culture of legal expediency and a disregard for normal behavior fostered at the top of this administration."

• June 4 -- "Ludicrous Visions" of US Troops Showered With Flowers?
An editorial on George Tenet's resignation slams "one of the more ludicrous visions offered by Mr. Rumsfeld's team, like the one of grateful Iraqis showering American soldiers with flowers." Yet the paper's own reporting shows that "ludicrous vision" was absolutely accurate.

• June 2 -- Memorial Day In Abu Ghraib
Shaila Dewan's Tuesday story marks Memorial Day in Powell, Wyoming--via Abu Ghraib.

• June 2 -- Nice Speech, Rumsfeld -- But What About Abu Ghraib?
Marc Santora covers Defense Secretary Rumsfeld's commencement speech at West Point and shoehorns in this out-of-nowhere reference: "The speech, which made no mention of the abuse of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, drew polite applause."

• June 1 -- Back to Abu Ghraib
All roads lead back to Abu Ghraib at the NYT.

• June 1 -- Frank Rich's Pornographic Hypocrisy
Editor Frank Rich contemptuously dismisses conservatives who dare link the prisoner abuse of Abu Ghraib to pornography: "The hypocrisy of those pushing this line knows few bounds." Yet the left-wing essayist Susan Sontag, so admired by Rich, made precisely the same argument in the cover story of the NYT magazine.

• May 27 -- Abu Ghraib "Abuse" Under Both U.S. and Saddam
Elisabeth Bumiller's report on Bush's call to raze the Abu Ghraib prison likens the abuse of Iraqis by U.S. soldiers to the torture and death practiced there by Saddam Hussein.

• May 27 -- More Reminders of Abu Ghraib
The release of transcripts from Henry Kissinger leads to a seemingly inevitable Abu Ghraib reference.

• May 19 -- Flooding the Zone on Abu Ghraib
The Washingtonian recently crowned the Washington Post the clear winner over the New York Times for comprehensive coverage of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse story. As if making up for lost time, Wednesday's NYT becomes Abu Ghraib central.

• May 18 -- Celebrating Another "Independent" Republican (and Bush Critic)
Carl Hulse lauds Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, another Republican with an "independent streak" (Times' code meaning "often sides with Democrats").

• May 11 -- Abu Ghraib Photos Remind Timesman of Vietnam
David Sanger's Monday news analysis, "U.S. Must Find A Way to Move Past the Images," examines a horrific photo from Abu Ghraib prison and is reminded (of course) of Vietnam.

• May 10 -- Rumsfeld in the Balance
Elisabeth Bumiller sets up the gallows for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld: "[Senator Lindsey] Graham had asked Mr. Rumsfeld a pivotal question: Could the greatly diminished prosecutor of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan still have the power to carry out his duties?" But that "greatly diminished" part didn't come from Graham.

• May 10 -- Abuse in U.S. Prisons "Similar" to Abu Ghraib
Crime reporter Fox Butterfield provides a factually thin stew of liberal anti-prison anecdotes: "Physical and sexual abuse of prisoners, similar to what has been uncovered in Iraq, takes place in American prisons with little public knowledge or concern, according to corrections officials, inmates and human rights advocates."

• May 10 -- Abu Ghraib = My Lai?
Frank Rich compares the abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison to the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.

• July 8 -- Greg Myre’s Own Mideast Road Map
The first draft of reporter Greg Myre’s article from Jerusalem falsely asserts the Middle East peace “road map” requires Israel to release Palestinian prisoners.