The author, Seth Hettena,formerly wrote for Rolling Stone.
put their lives at risk, and the lives of their families,” said James W. Hutton, an attorney for the SEALs who filed the complaint in the Superior Court of San Diego.
AP insisted yesterday that there had been no wrongdoing.
“We believe AP’s use of the photos and the manner in which they were obtained were entirely lawful and proper,” said Dave Tomlin, assistant general counsel for the organization.
Mr. Hutton takes issue with AP’s implication that the SEAL photos were on par with pictures showing ill treatment of prisoners by U.S. Army personnel in Iraq’s Abu Ghraib facility.
“These photos do not show any prisoner abuse,” Mr. Hutton said, but depict “standard procedures during covert actions.”
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“The SEAL photos had obscured the faces of the insurgents. But when the AP published them, they did not bother to obscure the faces of the SEALs. They did not give the Americans the same respect as the insurgents.
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