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Posted on 05/13/2009 10:29:50 AM PDT by WmShirerAdmirer
Obama Opposes Releasing Photos of U.S. Detainee Abuse President Obama has decided not to release the photos which the Pentagon had planned to release by May 28 in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union.
A senior administration official told FOX News that President Obama told his legal advisers last week that he did not feel comfortable with the release of the photos because he believes they would endanger U.S. troops, and that the national security implications of such a release have not been fully presented in federal court.
"Obama would be the last to excuse the actions depicted in these photos," the official said. "That is why the Department of Defense investigated these cases, and why individuals have been punished through prison sentences, discharges, and a range of other punitive measures.
"But the president strongly believes that the release of these photos, particularly at this time, would only serve the purpose of inflaming the theaters of war, jeopardizing U.S. forces, and making our job more difficult in places like Iraq and Afghanistan."
The Pentagon had planned to release the photos by May 28 in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. That decision was made after the Justice Department lost its latest round in federal court and concluded that any further appeal probably would be fruitless.
But on Tuesday, the president raised the issue of these photos with Gen. Ray Odierno, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, during a White House meeting and told him of his decision to argue against this release, the official said.
The ACLU was not immediately available for comment.
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Man, this guy is easy to roll. I'm sure that hasn't escaped the notice of the Iranians, Syrians and North Koreans.
ie....the political pandering to socialist America doesn't add up here.
I bet they get released anyway. This is just setting up political cover.
The horse is already out of the barn. All part of his plan.
Who got to him and why?
day late and a dollar short
What an ass,he has already done damage by all the publicity they had on the other ones..Now he isn’t going to release any more..Just another publicity stunt for him and the democrats..These morons stay awake at night dreaming up stuff like this..Or is it this moron is really as stupid as I though he was..
Or is it this moron is really as stupid as I though he was..
A village in Kenya is missing its idiot.......
If they killed a couple of hundred over a few cartoons of Mohammad, they are certainly prone to use these photos into a reason to kill more Americans.
I cannot understand how photos were taken in the first place. Try bringing a camera into a state or federal prison...it won’t happen.
Looks like one of his staffers ran a honest poll and crapped their pants when the results came in.
and the Russians, chinese, venezuelans, and cubans..hahaha
The National Day of Self Loathing has merely been delayed.
Why would he not just prohibit the release. He’s the idiot that said they were going to release them, so obviously he has control of that.
Good one!!
So when is he going to release his Birth Cert......
They’ll get released eventually. The SC will probably have to do it, and he’ll have the cover of that. BUT, hopefully a few lefty heads will explode in the mean time.
They were probably taken by “wailing woman”
or
“green jacket guy”.
Those people get around you know.
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