ABC News - President Obama and national security officials are considering releasing a photo of Osama bin Laden’s corpse today, a source told ABC News.
Obama will head to Ground Zero Thursday to meet with 9/11 families. Some of those families think seeing photos of bin Laden might help their healing. Other parts of the world have also asked to see the photos for proof that the master terrorist is dead.
“We are looking at releasing additional information, details about the raid as well as any other types of material, possibly including photos. We want to understand exactly what the possible reaction might be to the release of this information,” said White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan on “Good Morning America.”
Also up for consideration is the release of video from the “helmet cams” of the Navy SEALS who went after bin Laden. The SEALS captured the mission on tape by wearing helmet cameras.
“Any types of material related to the raid, we need to make sure that we make the right decisions. What we don’t want to do is to compromise potential future operations by releasing certain things, so we’re looking at all of this and making the right decisions,” Brennan said.
Maybe he needs to think about the reaction of the non-release of the information.
Then again, he could just stick it in the vault of the Hawaii Department of Health, that will make the Middle-East conspiracy-theorists-with-violent-intent just go away. There will always be people who say it didn't happen, but HOW MANY of those people would you prefer? MORE or less?