White House press secretary Robert Gibbs has just sent a note to the press corps (headlined “Important — Please Read”) addressing the controversy over whether those still-secret detention photos show rape and other acts of extreme abuse. “A number of you have asked about or reported on a recent article in the Telegraph that inaccurately described photos which are the subject of an ongoing lawsuit,” Gibbs began:

Both the Department of Defense and the White House have said the article was wrong, and now the individual who was purported to be the source of the article has said it’s inaccurate. Given that this false report has been repeated around the world, and given the impact these negative reports have on our troops, I felt it was important for you to see this correction.