The Daily Mail:

"They think that I was like this evil torturer. ... I wasn't,'' she says. "People don't realize I was just in a photo for a split second in time.''

I understand: Happens to me all the time. Why, I was on my way to the cafeteria the other day and just happened to step into a few dozen photos of naked civilians posed in a degrading erotic fashion. Like her, I couldn't help mugging it up for the camera, smiling, laughing, and pointing gleefully at their private parts. Happens to the best of us.

While admitting she made some bad decisions, England says it wasn't her place to question the "softening-up'' treatments sanctioned long before she arrived. "We were just pawns,'' said England, who's appealing her conviction and has her next hearing in July. "People were just playing us.''

They were interrogators? Then why did they have no provable associations whatsoever with the actual groups doing interrogations? And if she was set up, then why was she (and others) under investigation long before the public found out? Weird kind of set up, no? And why weren't all the actual interrogators at Gitmo and elsewhere similarly hung out to dry as "pawns"?

(I suppose Dick Cheney also forced her to have an on-the-job affair with Grainer? All part of the "softening up" process, no doubt.)

A jury of five Army officers, however, rejected England's claims that she was only following orders and trying to please the father of her child, former Cpl. Charles Graner Jr., who's currently imprisoned for his role.

Christopher Graveline, the lead prosecutor at her trial and now an assistant federal prosecutor in Michigan, said England and the other defendants are free to present their side to the media.

"But they presented the same facts to the jury, and the jury rejected them,'' he said.

England was convicted of conspiracy, mistreating detainees and committing an indecent act, one of 11 soldiers found guilty of wrongdoing at Abu Ghraib....

The detainees in the photos involving England, for example, were not suspected terrorists, Graveline says, but some of the thousands of "Iraqi-on-Iraqi criminals'' at the massive prison. None of the men in the England photos was ever interrogated.

"The idea that she and her colleagues were working somehow for military intelligence is not supported by fact,'' he says.

Ach, what are facts when there's a narrative to pursue?