Posted on 05/19/2009 9:34:29 PM PDT by nuconvert
A press release:
Senators Joe Lieberman (ID-CT) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) today introduced the Detainee Photographic Records Protection Act which would establish a procedure to block release of the detainee photos. The Senators plan to offer the legislation as an amendment to the Supplemental Appropriations bill that is being deliberated on the Senate floor this week.
Last week, after consulting with General Petraeus, General Odierno, and others, President Obama decided to fight the release of photographs that depict the treatment of detainees in U.S. custody. Those photographs are the subject of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union.
This legislation would authorize the Secretary of Defense, after consultation with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, to certify to the President that the disclosure of photographs like the ones at issue in the ACLU lawsuit would endanger the lives of our citizens or members of the Armed Forces or civilian employees of the United States government deployed abroad.
The certification would last five years and could be renewed by the Secretary of Defense if the threat to American personnel continues. Also, the language in the bill is clear that it would apply to the current ACLU lawsuit.
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
I don’t get Sen. Graham, one week he pisses me off with his rinoness and the next week he does something reasonable.
Nowhere in article is McCain mentioned? Does this mean that little Lindsey's mom finally took off his training wheels?
Or maybe something more radical occurred ... Medical Science made a break through and found a way to separate Lindsey's nose from McCain's butt.
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