AP about US charges for photographer: "Every claim we've checked out has proved to be false, overblown or microscopic in significance,"

AP Chief Slams Case Against Photographer | By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Published: November 24, 2007

NEW YORK (AP) -- The U.S. military is making a mockery of American democratic principles by bringing a criminal case against an Associated Press photographer in Iraq without disclosing the charges against him, AP President and CEO Tom Curley said Saturday.

"This is a poor example -- and not the first of its kind -- of the way our government honors the democratic principles and values it says it wants to share with the Iraqi people," Curley wrote in an opinion piece in The Washington Post.
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Military officials have refused to disclose the content of the complaint to the AP, despite repeated requests. Hussein's lawyer will enter the case ''blind,'' with no idea of the evidence or charges, Curley wrote.

''In the 19 months since he was picked up, Bilal has not been charged with any crime, although the military has sent out a flurry of ever-changing claims. Every claim we've checked out has proved to be false, overblown or microscopic in significance,'' said Curley. ...
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''How is Gardephe to defend Bilal? This affair makes a mockery of the democratic principles of justice and the rule of law that the United States says it is trying to help Iraq establish,'' Curley wrote.