Appeals court blocks release of detainee photos

msnbc ^ | 6/11/2009 | ap

[tobyhill]

The U.S. government can keep pictures of detainee abuse secret while it asks the Supreme Court to permanently block release of the photographs on the grounds they could incite violence in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan, a federal appeals court said Thursday.

The one-paragraph ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan came after the Obama administration asked the court to keep the pictures secret so it could appeal to the nation's highest court.

The administration last month said the disturbing photographs pose "a clear and grave risk of inciting violence and riots against American and coalition forces, as well as civilian personnel, serving in Iraq and Afghanistan."

[knarf]

' .. on the grounds they could incite violence in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan .. "

zero brings whirled peas to the planet.

[navyguy]

The ACLU is the group pushing for release of these photos. If you ever wonder why...

“I seek social ownership of property, the abolition of the properties class, and sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.”

— Roger Baldwin, leftist, anarchist, and Communist, was born in Wellesley MA and co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

“The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of ‘liberalism’ they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”

— Norman Thomas, Socialist Party Presidential Candidate in 1940, 1944 and 1948, co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

[KarinG1]

The pictures are almost certainly not as bad as the LSM is making them out to be in an obvious attempt to inflame the enemy and harm U.S. interests. Why is treason considered an offense no longer worthy of prosecution?