Army Reservist's Leaked Photos Exposed Abu Ghraib Torture Scandal

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[00:00:00]A 22-year-old Army reservist found photos on a computer that made his stomach turn. His fellow soldiers were torturing prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. He could have deleted them, pretended he never saw anything, stayed loyal to his unit. Instead, Joseph Darby copied every single photo and walked them straight [music] to criminal investigators. His own soldiers turned against him, called him a traitor. He needed protection just to survive. But those photos exposed war crimes that shocked the world. They led to major military reforms and 17 convictions. One man's courage changed how America fights wars. Sometimes doing right means standing alone.