General Meyers had been trying to save the lives of the troops
What part of this do you not understand?
Meyers was asked that and he answered that he made that decision himself with no higher authority.
What? Why does Myers need authorization to pick up the phone and ask a news organization to hold broadcasting inflammatory images that he felt put our troops in harms way? That has always been acceptable.
Besides, Myers said flat out at Friday's hearing (maybe Imus didn't watch and since you don't indicate Mik gave a logical and fact based answer like I, a lowly housewife know the answer to, I'll guess he did not pick up this obvious factoid) he had a working relationship with CBS and other media and HE was concerned about the impact the photos would have. He simply asked them to hold off on airing the pictures. He did not attempt to coerce them or try to suppress a thing.
Why is this not self-evident?