Obama administration engages in "non-denial denial" on abuse photos.(Inside Track)

THE NEW AMERICAN reported in a May 29 online article that the Obama administration and Pentagon were engaging in "non-denial denial" when they supposedly denied a London Daily Telegraph story that they were suppressing photos of female rape and homosexual rape of teenage boys at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs ridiculed the British newspaper's story and told the White House press corps on May 27 that "none of the photographs in question depict the images described in the article. Again, I think if you do an even moderate Google search, you're not going to find many of these newspapers and truth within, say, 25 words of each other."

The next day (May 28), THE NEW AMERICAN reported: "It is possible that there are two entirely different sets of abusive photographs, based upon Gibbs' non-denial denial.... It reeks of public affairs-coached talking points. Why not simply say that it didn't happen, if indeed it didn't happen? Why is it that such finely parsed denials seem like they are in search of an "out" by claiming later (should photos verifying the British newspaper's account eventually be published) that the feds were talking about a different set of photos than what the London Daily Telegraph was writing about?"

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It now appears this was precisely the case, as the very next day (May 29) the Internet magazine ...