Meanwhile the U.S. government is criticizing publication of the new photographs. Pentagon spokesperson Bryan Whitman said the release of the images “could only further inflame and possibly incite unnecessary violence in the world and would endanger our military men and women that are serving in places around the world.” State Department legal adviser John Bellinger also criticized the release of the photos. “These additional photographs that are now out are disgusting and shows once again just the reprehensible conduct that was going on in Abu Ghraib,” Bellinger said. “It’s unfortunate though that the photographs are continuing to come out, because I think it simply fans the flames at a time that sentiments on these issues are raw around the world.” Meanwhile, Mike Carey the executive producer of the Australian program Dateline defended the broadcast of the images. “Well, we thought this was new examples of abuse, criminal abuse potentially, lots of corpses with no explanation why they were there. We thought we had a responsibility to broadcast those to show the real horror of what happened in Abu Ghraib,” Carey said. “We actually did not broadcast some of the photographs because we thought they were too extreme. We got lots more photographs with the DVD’s—particularly some show sex acts between the guards at Abu Ghraib, apparently dressed in fatigues, probably occurring in Abu Ghraib. Lots of stuff like that we could have shown, we didn’t.”