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From WNYC in New York, this is NPR's On the Media. I'm Bob Garfield. And I'm Brooke Gladstone. This week, Army Reserve PFC, Lindy England, infamous for her appearance and photos holding a leash with an Iraqi prisoner on the other end, was brought before a military judge who threw out her guilty plea and declared a mistrial.

A year ago last week, on 60 Minutes 2 and in the New Yorker magazine,

Americans first confronted what has come to be called the horrors at Abu Ghraib.

And ever since, the American Civil Liberties Union has worked to keep the story of prisoner abuse on the front page. It's hard to put

new spins on what amounts to the same dismal story in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay.

But the ACLU has been helped by a Freedom of Information Act request filed long before the

Abu Ghraib pictures went public. When that request was ignored, the ACLU

sued, resulting in waves of fresh documents detailing abuses. Emily Whitfield is the ACLU's

media relations director. She says ACLU lawyers scrutinize every document for potential news

stories. The court has ordered the government to deliver 8,000 pages to us every two weeks.

That's a lot of material.

Our process has been, we want as many readers out there and people in the media to pick up this material and tell the public about it.

So we have our lawyers on staff, analyze the material, and find what we think of the most

newsworthy, and unfortunately, sometimes the most gruesome parts of it about abuses to prisoners,

fingers being poked into their wounds, having their hair ripped, having their genitals grabbed.

Unfortunately, that's the kind of thing that does grab people's attention, and in this

instance it should.

So when you have every two weeks 8,000 pages to go through, you look for headlines.

We do look for headlines, and then what we do is we analyze it and we make an index on our website

so that people can easily click on the sections that we're talking about.

And I can't tell you how many reporters have called up and said,

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