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US to Release Photos of Claimed Overseas Prison Abuse
Posted Apr 24, 2009 8:24 AM CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss
The Obama administration has decided to release photos of claimed prisoner abuses at U.S. prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Dozens of photos, including 44 sought by the American Civil Liberties Union in a lawsuit, will be released on May 28, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Some photos show detainees being threatened at gunpoint, but the images are not as shocking as those taken at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, the story says.
The United States reached an agreement with the ACLU to release the photos after the New York City-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused in March to reconsider a decision requiring disclosure, according to an ACLU press release.
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J.D.
Apr 24, 2009 8:46 AM CST
The Obama Administration combined with the ACLU is a jihadist’s wet dream.
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Robert NYC
Apr 24, 2009 8:48 AM CST
So the Supreme Court said these photos did not have to be released and Obama the serial traitor decided to pitch in and do what he could to weaken the US of A again. Not surprising.
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kennyg
Apr 24, 2009 9:35 AM CST
Be very careful,someone may call you a racist or a right wing extremist for disagreeing with him.
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B. McLeod
Apr 24, 2009 10:28 AM CST
#2, are you contending the 2nd Circuit has overruled the Supreme Court?
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J.D.
Apr 24, 2009 11:07 AM CST
A photo with no context always invites nonsense. These will exploited to the fullest extent possible by those who hate the U.S.
They will damage “our standing in the world” more than anything that has come before us. Funny, I though that libs cared about that sort of thing…
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Paul the Magyar
Apr 24, 2009 11:41 AM CST
I remember the good old days, when conservatives believed in limited government and open government, when conservatives were suspicious of government and thought that it should operate in the sunshine.
Nowadays, conservatives put ideology and party first, and excuse any abuse or secrecy as long as it is perpetrated by someone claiming to be a conservative. So now, torture is good and secret torture is best, whether or not it is efficacious or inimical to American ideals.
I wonder why these ersatz-conservatives complain about criticism of actions once taken and justified by the German National Socialist regime? Why would they ever excuse actions identified with that regime? And then, act surprised, incredulous and offended when people draw the inevitable comparison?
If only the President’s shirt, rather than the President himself,were brown.
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Paul the Magyar
Apr 24, 2009 8:44 PM CST
Lets recap, shall we?
Torture is inimical to our ideals.
Torture is inimical to our founding documents.
Torture is inimical to an open government.
Torture is inimical to rule of law.
Torture is prone to generate false information (something we learned during Korea when US servicement gave false confessions as a result of what was known as “chinese water torture” until the Bush Administration renamed it “waterboarding” in Orwellian fashion.
Torture is bound to inspire hatred and anger against the US and its people.
Torture is part of the whole neo-con wet dream known as the American Empire (a/k/a “Project for a New American Century” a/k/a “The Hundred Year Reich”).
The neo-cons who are driven by this dream have decided it is expedient to dispense with historical examples, empirical research, and this country’s self-imposed idealist charter (a/k/a “liberal eyewash” a/k/a “United States Constitution” and “Bill of Rights”).
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B. McLeod
Apr 24, 2009 10:19 PM CST
It is most interesting how the former secrecy policy contrasts with the way we function as lawyers in factfinding. In any litigation dispute, if photographs had been taken, accurately depicting one or more relevant occurrences, is there any question but that they would be fully discoverable? Isn’t the reason for that rule that we recognize it is important, in any dispute or controversy, to establish the facts that actually existed, with all the available, objective evidence that shows what they were? What is the policy that is thought, by critics of the President, to favor continuing to hide the truth? Why were these photos ever taken to begin with?
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J.D.
Apr 26, 2009 11:57 AM CST
Magy: “Torture is bound to inspire hatred and anger against the US and its people.”
And yet, Magy has a choice: he can call caterpillars in boxes “interrogation” or he can scream and yell and call it “torture.”
Why does he, and all the leftists, insist on calling caterpillars in boxes “torture”? Could it be that he wants to “inspire hatred against the U.S. and its people”? Again, the left and the jihadists have much in common.
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DR
Apr 27, 2009 11:54 AM CST
If putting someone in a box with “caterpillars” is not torture, then why, oh why, have I not been using this method for all of my recent depositions?!! Silly me, no wonder I haven’t been able to get my adversaries to answer truthfully!
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Paul the Magyar
Apr 27, 2009 6:14 PM CST
Paul the Magyar notes with interest that we are supposedly only discussing caterpillars now; that we have conveniently forgotten that we were once discussing chinese water torture and the deaths of prisoners in detention.
I would be pleased if I could inspire hatred of torture in our conservative idealists, but all I ever hear from our conservative idealists is the same ridiculous spin points: 1) “torture” is undefined and thus does not exist; 2) “torture” is not really torture; 3) “torture” is an exaggerated term for mere “involuntary entomology”; people opposed to “torture” are unpatriotic.
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J.D.
Apr 28, 2009 8:47 AM CST
Again, libs have a choice: they can call caterpillars in boxes and dunking heads in water “interrogation” or they can scream and yell and call it “torture.”
They choose the latter because it advances their anti-American agenda.
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