Posted on 05/21/2013 12:20:54 PM PDT by Theoria
A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the U.S. government had properly classified top secret more than 50 images of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden taken after his death, and that the government did not need to release them.
The unanimous ruling by three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected a request for the images by a conservative nonprofit watchdog group.
Judicial Watch sued for photographs and video from the May 2011 raid in which U.S. special forces killed bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, after more than a decade of searching.
The organization's lawsuit relied on the Freedom of Information Act, a 1966 law that guarantees public access to some government documents.
In an unsigned opinion, the appeals court accepted an assertion from President Barack Obama's administration that the images are so potent that releasing them could cause riots that would put Americans abroad at risk.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Coverup suggests Obama WORKED with Osama’s people
to take down a double.
Not the first time, Obama helped al Qaeda, is it?
I’ll simply quote Freeper liberalh8ter here:
“They’re lying liars and at this point, everyone should consider everything they’ve ever said to be a lie.”
Americans at risk my rear end! They had no problem of releasing the photos of our troops p!ssing on dead terrorist.
Start a rumor that Bin Laden had made donations to the Tea Party and they’ll mysteriously be leaked to the New York Times.
Don’t kid yourself. He’s probably still on the CIA payroll.
I don’t think Bin Laden is dead. What is so special about the pictures that we can’t see them. We saw Qaddafi’s body, contractors hung from bridges and even worse so what’s the problem here. All the Seals are dead thanks to obama so they won’t complain.
More obama corruption in the mix somewhere.
I believe Obama. Why it would be more likely that he’d use the IRS as an attack squad against his political enemies than it would be for him to lie about the death of Bin Laden.
Maybe we can ask the Special Forces that carried out the attack. wait...
There is no justifiable reason to not release these pictures.
Worried about inflaming the Islamic world, really? Abu Graihb pictures, Koran burning stories, American soldier collateral damage photos have been released despite the predictable damage they have done to our counter-terrorism efforts. Aren’t these latter photos and news stories far more inflammatory?
He’s been dead for years.
Anyone remember the reporter that had his head sawed off with a dull butter knife while the 2 aholes were screaming aallaa (pos)akbarf?
Time for the Cartoons
Yo Ragheads ... lets play Cowboys and Muslims... I’m beyond the whole “peaceful muslim” myth and ready to get started.
TT
Color me insensitive... but I’m getting old and I still have 1 job left to do.
“In an unsigned opinion, the appeals court accepted an assertion from President Barack Obama’s administration that the images are so potent that releasing them could cause riots that would put Americans abroad at risk.”
Oh puh-leeze. Top Secret, yeah right. Really? Like, the video that caused the Benghazi murders? BS. WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE? HE’S DEAD (BIN-DED) AND EVERYONE NOES IT!
Leni
Just a FyI The Originator assigns the Classification
TT
“....releasing them could cause riots that would put Americans abroad at risk.”
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That statement just confirms that Islam in particular and muslims in general are nothing more than a bunch of undisciplined bearded barbarians.
Hmmm, islam is a religion of peace?
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