Senator Lindsey Graham, a
Republican member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said after an
appearance by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld before the committee that
the scandal would worsen.
“The American public needs
to understand we’re talking about rape and murder here,” Graham said after
the Senate hearing.
“We’re not just talking
about giving people a humiliating experience. We’re talking about rape and
murder and some very serious charges.”
During the hearing, Graham
asked Rumsfeld whether he had seen videos the defense secretary said had
been collected as evidence. Rumsfeld said he had not and gave no details of
what more could be expected.
But Graham, who is a judge
for the army reserve, said: “It’s going to get worse. You’re going to have
more things to show people that will make people mad, more angry.”
Six soldiers face charges
over the abuse and seven officers have been reprimanded. Six of the officers
face a career ending court martial.
Pictures of Iraqi
detainees, naked, bound together and in sexually humiliating poses, taken at
the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad sparked the controversy.
Rumsfeld revealed that
there could be hundreds more pictures and some videos that could worsen the
scandal.
