Little by little, thanks to hard work by the ACLU who continues to fight government secrecy, the shameful details of the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal continue to come out. As a result of Freedom of Information Act requests filed by the organization, new Government memos have turned up.

U.S. special forces accused of abusing prisoners in Iraq threatened Defense Intelligence Agency personnel who saw the mistreatment, according to U.S. government memos released Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union.

The special forces also monitored e-mails sent by defense personnel and ordered them "not to talk to anyone" in the United States about what they saw, said one memo written by the Defense Intelligence Agency chief, who complained to his Pentagon bosses about the harassment. In addition, the special forces confiscated photos of a prisoner who had been punched in the face.

The description of the condition of some of the prisoners is appalling: