Now paging Mr. Orwell...

I can't believe I just read this:

The release of a State Department report on the human rights record of the United States was delayed because it would not have been heard above the "noise" of the exploding scandal on prisoner abuse in Iraq.

Translation: "We don't want to release a glowing report about how great our human rights record is while our troops sodomize Iraqis with broomsticks."