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May 26, 2004
Rumsfeld Bans Digital Cameras
Justin Podur of the wonderfully informative The Killing Train blog points out that Rumsfeld has banned all digital cameras from U.S. military installations in Iraq and a "total ban throughout the U.S. military is in the works."
How surprising. Here's Rumsfeld ranting during his May 7th testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee about having to run a war in the information age:
We're functioning in a -- with peacetime restraints, with legal requirements in a war-time situation, in the information age, where people are running around with digital cameras and taking these unbelievable photographs and then passing them off, against the law, to the media, to our surprise, when they had not even arrived in the Pentagon.
The solution is to roll back the information age, of course. No pictures, no outrage since who'd believe those Iraqis anyway?
Posted by zeynep at May 26, 2004 04:46 PM
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If a war crime is committed and there's no one there to take a picture, does it make a sound?
Listening to Rumsfeld's testimony on C-SPAN I had the distinct feeling that he was not so much upset that the crimes had taken place, but that someone dared to document them.
Really, though, is any deniability plausible from these people?
Posted by: seth at May 26, 2004 05:23 PM
This story ran originally in the Australian media. It was poorly sourced and is now pretty much disavowed. Initially my reacton was the same as yours.
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