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.
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One of the men in the Abu Ghraib photos attempted to blackmail the government in exchange for a plea bargain. He didn’t get his lighter sentence so he was the 2004 source of the most famous leaked photos.
Have to wonder if any of those in the photos were “fragging” the troops with this as a form of entrapment. No one should do these deeds. But perhaps there was a bigger goal in mind and thus a reason to take pictures and document the abuse.
This is an OUTRAGE!!!
When will the State Department leak Obama’s supressed birth certificate?
I have to wonder what else this Obama "splinter cell" will do to ensure their agenda for Change takes place at any and all costs?
There was also a British newspaper that had some staged photos they ran. A genuine soldier posed for “abuse” photos with real military equipment (that was not deployed) and urinated on a supposed prisoner.
Again, my questions about those who participated in these deeds are there because there ARE people who’ve fragged our side (Sgt. Akbar with a grenade attack in 2003 and others) as well as this British traitor and the editor.
We see how the Palestinians use the media war to shape public opinion (staged photo ops, phony victims, photoshopped “damage”).
Exposure and public prosecution is the way to put this down.
And why doesn’t anyone in the world ever consider the horrible deeds committed by Michael Moore’s so-called “freedom fighters” in Iraq?
How convenient, 0bama suddenly does a 180 a day before the photos are leaked.
Gotta make a big show of it right before they come out.
At least we know who the leaker is.
Bingo! From the beginning of this unknown puppet's rise it's been obvious that he is being handled—by long time leftists and by a cabal of internationalists in the bureaucracies of the beltway.
Are you so sure he has lost control? He might very possibly want those pictures out, but does not want his name on their release. Remember what at sleaze he is. Never truthful. Wants others to lift his load.
“Will no one rid me of these turbulent photos?”
[some time later]
“I didn’t MEAN leak them to the press. Really, I didn’t.”
This is torture, torture, I tell you. NOT! These guys dig in their own excrement all the time and throw it at the guards. They are used to playing in it.
All Barack Hussien Obama would have had to do was issue an executive order to keep those pictures from coming out, but instead he is going to leave it up to the final decision of the court.
Its all part of the plan, folks. He is solely responsible for this by even entertaining the idea at all. Having them leaked conveniently gets him off the hook but still accomplishes the goal.
Quel surprise!
For propaganda purposes, nobody will care, whether they could tell or not.
Homeland Security releases a controversial report on groups who pose the greatest risk in the US.
After nearly a month on the street, Napolitano retracts the report, stating it wasn't properly vetted.
Pelosi calls for investigations on prisoner torture.
The CIA releases documents showing she was briefed.
She looks flustered in a news conference yesterday, inferring is CIA lying.
Obama denies Cheney’s request for the declassification of two documents that provide information about the effectiveness of the detainee program.
Cheney is appealing the decision -- with vigor.
Obama publicly does a 180, and says he won't release the prisoner photos, breaking a major campaign promise to his supporters.
Today, they're leaked in Australia where they were originally obtained by television channel SBS. This happens ahead of Obama’s June 4 Cairo speech.
Never forget.
Yup... "leaked images". This is exactly what I expected would happen.
Rahm Emanuel probably had the photos released!
The whole reason 0bama publicly did a 180 yesterday on the prisoner abuse photos was so that today the headlines would read “Obama’s bid to suppress prisoner abuse pictures fails as images are leaked.”
Notice how the headline leads by saying 0bama tried to prevent their release? He’s now the “good guy.”
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