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(Daily Mail-UK) Obama's bid to suppress prisoner abuse pictures fails as images are leaked
UK Daily Mail ^ | 5-15-09 | Mail Foriegn Service (They're not Telling!)

Posted on 05/15/2009 6:48:52 AM PDT by tcrlaf

Mr Obama fears a backlash against U.S. troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Further images purportedly from the 2,000 include one of a naked man covered in excrement with a guard standing in front of him.

Others yet to be released are alleged to show guards threatening to sexually assault a detainee with a broomstick and hooded prisoners in transport planes with copies of Playboy magazine showing naked women open on their laps.

The president had previously committed to allowing them to be seen but changed his mind after senior generals said it could place U.S. troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan in greater danger.

The images were released in Australia yesterday where they were originally obtained by the television channel SBS in the wake of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal.

The release comes at an inopportune time for President Obama who is trying to build bridges with the Islamic world.

President Obama earlier vowed to fight to block the release of the 2,000 'inflammatory' photographs showing the abuse of prisoners by U.S. soldiers. He had previously said the administration would not oppose a court ruling demanding the release of hundreds of the classified photos.

This followed his decision to release the U.S. Justice Department memos detailing CIA interrogation methods, such as waterboarding, that he has now outlawed as torture. Aides say he changed his mind on the photos because 'he did not feel comfortable' with their release. He has asked his legal advisors to present a new case to judges saying that making the pictures public could imperil national security.

The White House legal team is now preparing for a June 9 deadline to present its case that it would be against the interests of national security to make them public.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aclu; bho44; cultureofcorruption; democrats; democratscandals; enemedia; leak; obama; pelosi; pentagonleaks; torture; waterboarding
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To: tcrlaf
You can look to his history and have an answer to your question of whether he even cares.

While an IL senator, he took an active role in protecting the murder of born alive children via purposed neglect, as a means to empower his political capital with the leftists who vote democrat. If causing the murder of soldiers who are captured will further his political capital witht he extreme left, he will assign Rahm to get it done by Holder or leak, whatever he needs. This affirmative action figure is a very wicked man.

41 posted on 05/15/2009 7:22:15 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: calex59

Yep. Anyone who is surprised about this has not been paying attention. I wouldn’t be surprised if Barry “leaked” the photos himself.


42 posted on 05/15/2009 7:22:33 AM PDT by ponygirl ("Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.")
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To: MinuteGal

Absolutely Gal. O’Reilly keeps desperately searching for “middle ground” in situations, and with people, that/who don’t have it and don’t deserve it. When it comes to doing anything and everything to keep our country safe, there is no middle ground. None. When it comes to 0 and his grand plans for our country, there is no middle ground. Zero has told us what he plans to do. And we’ve learned the hard way (all except for McCain that is) that compromise or playing nice with libs doesn’t work. It backfires big time.


43 posted on 05/15/2009 7:23:50 AM PDT by fleagle ( An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. -Winston Churchill)
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To: tcrlaf
The first one looks like a bachelor party I went to once.
44 posted on 05/15/2009 7:23:55 AM PDT by Perdogg (0bama - America's Elegabalus and Commodus combined)
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To: Gay State Conservative

People like Obama make a lot of enemies, espcially with his nasy habit of throwing his own people under the bus.

Someday someone deep inside his own administration is going to leak Obama’s methods to the world. Obama will have his own Dick Morris. Even if the MSM covers for Obama, the internet and FOX will tell the sordid tale.

Nixon’s Watergate will pale in comparison.


45 posted on 05/15/2009 7:24:33 AM PDT by keats5 (Not all of us are hypnotized.)
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To: tcrlaf

That didn’t take long. As soon as Barry began to “back off” on releasing the photos, I knew they’d be “leaked.” That’s his way of doing things: deniability is all.


46 posted on 05/15/2009 7:27:01 AM PDT by livius
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To: tcrlaf
I'm wondering about this line from the article

The images were released in Australia yesterday where they were originally obtained by the television channel SBS in the wake of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal.

Much as I would love to blame Barry, it sounds like they've had them for a long time.

47 posted on 05/15/2009 7:27:14 AM PDT by franklog
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...
one of a naked man covered in excrement with a guard standing in front of him.
Gosh, I wonder who leaked 'em? Now the Obamanation has had these leaked, and will say, okay, since some have been leaked *by parties unknown* koff koff, just to clear the air, we'll release all of them.
48 posted on 05/15/2009 7:27:27 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: Perdogg

Ten bucks says that guy’s doing situps and the guards just couldn’t miss that photo opportunity.


49 posted on 05/15/2009 7:30:09 AM PDT by flintsilver7 (Honest reporting hasn't caught on in the United States.)
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To: MinuteGal

OMG! KUDOS to YOU! You are exactly, perfectly right.


50 posted on 05/15/2009 7:30:19 AM PDT by battletank
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To: tcrlaf
At least the detainees all have their heads!
51 posted on 05/15/2009 7:31:00 AM PDT by tiredoflaundry (I will not be silenced.)
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To: M203M4

Good call!


52 posted on 05/15/2009 7:31:01 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: SunkenCiv

Petulant prisoners, especially juveniles, actually frequently defecate on themselves as a way to get back at their captors. It’s worth noting. If you know anybody who works or has worked at a juvenile detention facility, you know this is true.


53 posted on 05/15/2009 7:31:17 AM PDT by flintsilver7 (Honest reporting hasn't caught on in the United States.)
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To: tcrlaf
" It's becoming clear that Obama has little control over those around him."

No, this is how he wanted it to play out. The pics get published to satisfy his yowling leftist base, yet he gets to adopt a posture of statesmanlike prudence and pretend it didn't happen on his watch.
54 posted on 05/15/2009 7:31:55 AM PDT by RightOnTheLeftCoast (1st call: Abbas. 1st interview: Al Arabiya. 1st energy decision: halt drilling in UT. Arabs 1st!)
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To: tcrlaf
And we know these pics are authentic "abuse by US troops" because....

vaudine

55 posted on 05/15/2009 7:32:23 AM PDT by vaudine
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To: franklog

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/5325444/New-prisoner-abuse-photographs-emerge-despite-US-bid-to-block-publication.html

The images emerged from Australia yesterday where they were originally obtained by the channel SBS in 2006 in the wake of the Abu Ghraib scandal. They were not distributed around the world at the time but are now believed to be among those the president is trying to block.


56 posted on 05/15/2009 7:32:47 AM PDT by maggief
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To: MinuteGal
Leni, *O* the bass turd knew this would happen. His “opposition” was just a teflon coating for the One!
57 posted on 05/15/2009 7:33:06 AM PDT by tiredoflaundry (I will not be silenced.)
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To: tcrlaf; All

Now phony pictures can be “leaked” with no attribution, and Obama can claim plausible deniability.

The Boston Globe once published front-page “torture” pictures that turned out to be from a homosexual BDSM movie or the like.

Nobody will be able to tell, in the coming flood of images, which are real and which are not.

This explains Obama’s apparent flip-flop on the issue, he figured a way to do even more harm in a way that won’t be his fault, it’ll all be above his pay grade.


58 posted on 05/15/2009 7:33:57 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: cripplecreek
Oppose something, then suddenly it happens out of his control.

It is called "having it both ways." He announces his objections, it happens anyway (which he wanted in the first place).

vaudine

59 posted on 05/15/2009 7:34:17 AM PDT by vaudine
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To: rdax
That’s how I would get out of bed on Sunday mornings back in college.

I hated dropping my first cigarette of the day from the top bunk.
60 posted on 05/15/2009 7:34:24 AM PDT by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
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