In the U.S.A., being naked can be expensive and whoever offers an 18-year-old a beer can be condemned. But nearly everyone may own weapons or drive a car.
The Abu Ghraib scandal, with its ethical, humanitarian and legal symbolism, was the beginning of the end for the American occupation of Iraq.
The program, known as Penny Lane, infiltrated ex-prisoners into al-Qaida cells in their home countries, from which they then reported back to Langley.