Lynndie England

She's the petite woman we see holding a lit cigarette in the vicinity of a prisoner's privates as well as walking a prone Iraqi detainee on a leash.

Her family came out today to beg the public not to judge her. They say those pictures were posed and don't truly represent her. I feel for the family, I do, just as I feel for other families of the people identified in this mess so far.

I suspect, however, that the families of the detainees she treated this way would also argue to see their loved ones as real humans, and not just someone the US has labeled worthy of detainment.

One of the worst parts of the England story, IMHO, is that her job is strictly administrative. She had no reason to be back there palling around with the guards and interacting thusly with the prisoners, from reports I've heard and read. So we have a woman who chose, for whatever reason, to participate well past her job description, and no good explanation why...unless you happen to be devotees of either the Milgram or Zimbardo experiments on captor-prisoner relationships.