Abu Ghraib, redux

Via sfgate:

An Australian television network broadcast photographs and video clips Wednesday that it said were previously unpublished images of the abuse of Iraqis held in U.S. military custody at Abu Ghraib prison in 2003. [snip]

"The department believes that a further release of images could only further inflame and possibly incite unnecessary violence in the world and would endanger our military men and women that are serving around the world," [Pentagon spokesman Bryan] Whitman said.

Duh, that's been the excuse all along. Common sense, on the other hand, might indicate that if the images were inflammatory, it would have been best to just release them all in the first place and deal with it all at once, instead of fighting FOI requests all this time.