Congressional Cover Up and War Crimes.

Larisa Alexandrovna, the editor of Raw Story, has an article about Senators Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Lindsay Graham (R- S.C.) threatening to "employ all the legislative means available" in order to block the release of photos depicting abuse of prisoners detained by the American government.  

The two senators claim "national security" as the reason for their stonewalling, but Alexandrovna sees it as the two legislators attempting to block evidence for a legal reckoning that is sure to come over government actions taken since 2001. Alexandrovna writes that, "the pictures would prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that these methods were in fact torture, and that these methods resulted in the brutal abuse of possibly thousands of people and the deaths of possibly thousands of people."

Recently, the United Nations has claimed that Donald Rumsfeld has an international legal target on him, but obviously members of Congress had knowledge that torture was taking place.  Anyone who doesn't think that this will influence the 2010 Congressional elections needs only look back at the absolutely chilling Abu Ghraib photographs previously released.  Now that everyone knows that for the past six years young Americans have been employed in the torture and death of foreign prisoners, those responsible for ordering and overseeing those actions are surely quivering in their capitol hill offices.