" ..The prosecutors' report includes thousands of images of corpses that the investigators say were detainees held and killed by the military police in Syria..."
"State Dept. Learned in November of Photos Said to Show Torture in Syria By MARK LANDLER and BEN HUBBARDJAN. 22, 2014
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration first learned last November about a harrowing trove of photographs that were said to document widespread torture and executions in Syrian prisons when a State Department official viewed some of the images on a laptop belonging to an antigovernment activist, a senior official said Wednesday.
The United States did not act on the photos for the past two months, officials said, because it did not have possession of the digital files and could not establish their authenticity. Nevertheless, they said, the administration believes the photos are genuine, basing that assessment in part on the meticulous way in which the bodies in the photos were numbered.... "
Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/23/world/middleeast/photo-archive-linked-to-torture-seems-unlikely-to-alter-us-policy-on-syria.html?_r=0
They have had a lot of time to validate these images.
