Judge orders US release of military detainee abuse photos

apnews.myway.com ^ | March 21, 2015 | JENNIFER PELTZ

[PROCON]

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. must release photographs showing abuse of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan, a federal judge has ruled in a long-running clash over letting the world see potentially disturbing images of how the military treated prisoners.

U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein's ruling Friday gives the government, which has fought the case for over a decade, two months to decide whether to appeal before the photos could be released. The American Civil Liberties Union has been seeking to make them public in the name of holding government accountable.

[PROCON]

The ACLU has said the pictures "are manifestly important to an ongoing national debate about governmental accountability for the abuse of prisoners."

Translation:

This will further prove that Bush and Cheney and all Republicans are war criminals.

[mountainlion]

So why don't they tell Hillarat to reliance her mail for the same reason?

[PROCON]

Silly, because she’s a demonrat.

[smokingfrog]

Just tryin to help out those ISIS recruiters. ..

[PROCON]

Exactly, I see Maria Harf’s ISIS job program is working.

[smokingfrog]

Transparancy for thee — but not for me.

[nascarnation]

Media scorecard:

Terrorist with underwear on head in Abu Ghraib >>> HORRIFFIC
Terrorist vaporized with drone missile >>> APPLAUSE

Bush should have had them all killed, he would still have gotten trashed by the MSM but at least the bad guys would be dead.

[EBH]

I say he should order the media to show the real pictures of the torture the likes of ISIS and their brothers visit upon innocent people.

Somehow I don’t think there is anything we do that remotely compares to crucifixions, beheadings, rape, etc.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Clintoon appointee! Go figure....

[9thLife]

Just say you lost the pictures.

[PROCON]

Just say you lost the pictures.

LOL, that would give them a taste of their own liberal medicine.

[knarf]

"Bush should have had them all killed, he would still have gotten trashed by the MSM but at least the bad guys would be dead."

The principle that statement describes used to be modus operandi for the USA ... we went to war .. killed everything in sight, and came home in a few years

Korea and Viet Nam were the classroom for the political take-over of the world's greatest fighting force.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

I’m still waiting for the release of documentation in the trial of Ted Kennedy’s murder of Mary Jo Kopechne.

[molson209]

Obama needs a DISTRACTION ?

[mountainlion]

I’m still waiting for the release...

I want to see the records of John the traitor Kerry investigated.

[Delta 21]

But we cant see anymore Obama administration note or files or Hillary’s email.

Got it !

[freeangel]

Oh, my. Any pictures of our military personnel holding up heads of recently beheaded enemies? If not then just stfu.

[mware]

They are going to stir the pot again.

Hope none of our military are killed because of the outrage caused by the photos.

[MeshugeMikey]

Just Released

oh boy,,,,THIS.... is going to raise a ruckus

[trisham]

It’s probably going to happen.