Nikolai at Lenin’s Tomb seems to have caught an interesting case of possible revisionism.
He quotes a BBC article:
Those torture photos? Military intelligence ordered them to be taken :
The lawyer for one of the soldiers accused of being involved in the events which prompted outrage around the world said orders had been given for the photographs to be taken.
“They were part of the psychological manipulation of the prisoners being interrogated,” Guy Womack, attorney for Charles Graner Jr, told NBC television.
“It was being controlled and devised by the military intelligence community and other governmental agencies, including the CIA,” he said, adding that the soldiers were simply “following orders”
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Now the BBC article has a different title and the sentence about the pictures being ordered taken is gone. However, Google News still has the original article though the link now takes you to the revised article.
Answers demanded over Iraq abuse
BBC News, UK – 21 hours ago
… one of the soldiers accused of being involved in the events which prompted outrage around the world said orders had been given for the photographs to be taken. …
The internet never forgets. Looks like either a soldier has been edited for making unapproved statements or the BBC misquoted him and failed to post a correction.