Obama continues Bush's lie.

Editor,

Barack Obama says that one of the reasons he is resisting release of recently surfaced photographs of the humiliation and torture of prisoners by Americans at Abu Ghraib is that a few bad apples were responsible and they have been punished.

This is a bald-faced lie, and Barack Obama knows it. What occurred at Abu Ghraib was official Bush administration policy. The whole point of Abu Ghraib is that that despicable policy emanated from the White House. And Barack Obama now is as culpable in George Bush's crimes as anyone else.