Posted on 05/15/2009 6:48:52 AM PDT by tcrlaf
Mr Obama fears a backlash against U.S. troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Further images purportedly from the 2,000 include one of a naked man covered in excrement with a guard standing in front of him.
Others yet to be released are alleged to show guards threatening to sexually assault a detainee with a broomstick and hooded prisoners in transport planes with copies of Playboy magazine showing naked women open on their laps.
The president had previously committed to allowing them to be seen but changed his mind after senior generals said it could place U.S. troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan in greater danger.
The images were released in Australia yesterday where they were originally obtained by the television channel SBS in the wake of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal.
The release comes at an inopportune time for President Obama who is trying to build bridges with the Islamic world.
President Obama earlier vowed to fight to block the release of the 2,000 'inflammatory' photographs showing the abuse of prisoners by U.S. soldiers. He had previously said the administration would not oppose a court ruling demanding the release of hundreds of the classified photos.
This followed his decision to release the U.S. Justice Department memos detailing CIA interrogation methods, such as waterboarding, that he has now outlawed as torture. Aides say he changed his mind on the photos because 'he did not feel comfortable' with their release. He has asked his legal advisors to present a new case to judges saying that making the pictures public could imperil national security.
The White House legal team is now preparing for a June 9 deadline to present its case that it would be against the interests of national security to make them public.
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While an IL senator, he took an active role in protecting the murder of born alive children via purposed neglect, as a means to empower his political capital with the leftists who vote democrat. If causing the murder of soldiers who are captured will further his political capital witht he extreme left, he will assign Rahm to get it done by Holder or leak, whatever he needs. This affirmative action figure is a very wicked man.
Yep. Anyone who is surprised about this has not been paying attention. I wouldn’t be surprised if Barry “leaked” the photos himself.
Absolutely Gal. O’Reilly keeps desperately searching for “middle ground” in situations, and with people, that/who don’t have it and don’t deserve it. When it comes to doing anything and everything to keep our country safe, there is no middle ground. None. When it comes to 0 and his grand plans for our country, there is no middle ground. Zero has told us what he plans to do. And we’ve learned the hard way (all except for McCain that is) that compromise or playing nice with libs doesn’t work. It backfires big time.
People like Obama make a lot of enemies, espcially with his nasy habit of throwing his own people under the bus.
Someday someone deep inside his own administration is going to leak Obama’s methods to the world. Obama will have his own Dick Morris. Even if the MSM covers for Obama, the internet and FOX will tell the sordid tale.
Nixon’s Watergate will pale in comparison.
That didn’t take long. As soon as Barry began to “back off” on releasing the photos, I knew they’d be “leaked.” That’s his way of doing things: deniability is all.
The images were released in Australia yesterday where they were originally obtained by the television channel SBS in the wake of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal.
Much as I would love to blame Barry, it sounds like they've had them for a long time.
one of a naked man covered in excrement with a guard standing in front of him.Gosh, I wonder who leaked 'em? Now the Obamanation has had these leaked, and will say, okay, since some have been leaked *by parties unknown* koff koff, just to clear the air, we'll release all of them.
Ten bucks says that guy’s doing situps and the guards just couldn’t miss that photo opportunity.
OMG! KUDOS to YOU! You are exactly, perfectly right.
Good call!
Petulant prisoners, especially juveniles, actually frequently defecate on themselves as a way to get back at their captors. It’s worth noting. If you know anybody who works or has worked at a juvenile detention facility, you know this is true.
vaudine
The images emerged from Australia yesterday where they were originally obtained by the channel SBS in 2006 in the wake of the Abu Ghraib scandal. They were not distributed around the world at the time but are now believed to be among those the president is trying to block.
Now phony pictures can be “leaked” with no attribution, and Obama can claim plausible deniability.
The Boston Globe once published front-page “torture” pictures that turned out to be from a homosexual BDSM movie or the like.
Nobody will be able to tell, in the coming flood of images, which are real and which are not.
This explains Obama’s apparent flip-flop on the issue, he figured a way to do even more harm in a way that won’t be his fault, it’ll all be above his pay grade.
It is called "having it both ways." He announces his objections, it happens anyway (which he wanted in the first place).
vaudine
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