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The Whitehouse.gov website has an interesting method for naming TOTUS photo files. Photos by various White House staff photographers, including Lawrence Jackson and Pete Souza, are located in a subfolder named "assets/hero" with file names including "hero_pressconf," "Hero_FathersDay," "Hero_ServeGov2," and "hero_AMA." Follow this: http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/hero/hero_pressconf.jpg will find today's montage of TOTUS faces during the press conference. http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/hero/hero_AMA.jpg yields TOTUS speaking at the AMA convention. http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/hero/Hero_FathersDay.jpg reveals TOTUS frolicking with his daughters and his namesake dog.

The U.S. government can keep pictures of detainee abuse secret while it asks the Supreme Court to permanently block release of the photographs on the grounds they could incite violence in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan, a federal appeals court said Thursday. The one-paragraph ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan came after the Obama administration asked the court to keep the pictures secret so it could appeal to the nation's highest court. The administration last month said the disturbing photographs pose "a clear and grave risk of inciting violence and riots against American and coalition forces,...

On Tuesday, information surfaced that Democrats had also removed the Graham-Lieberman amendment that had passed the Senate by a unanimous vote.  The amendment barred for three years the release by the government of Abu Ghraib-type photographs highly sought after by al Qaeda and the ACLU. As HUMAN EVENTS reported yesterday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) hit the media circuit threatening to do “whatever it takes,� including a Senate shutdown, if the House removes the amendment language from the supplemental conference report.  Senate staff sources told HUMAN EVENTS yesterday that steps were already being put into place to slow about 25 of...

Just saw this breaking on Fox News. Pelosi and the other RATs on this committee have just openly committed treason against the country by voting to block the senate's attempt to keep the "torture" photos sealed.

U.S. President Barack Obama

They were taken before Marilyn Monroe became branded as the voluptuous blonde who oozed sex appeal in dozens of Hollywood films. A 24-year-old Marilyn Monroe poses for Life magazine in August 1950. They were taken before rumors of an affair with President John F. Kennedy swirled and her mental breakdowns became public. They were taken before the beautiful actress's mysterious overdose that resulted in her death at the age of 36. In a collection discovered by Life.com last month, unpublished photographs of Monroe reveal a softer, more innocent 24-year-old budding starlet in a more peaceful time, before her fame peaked....

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama reversed his decision to release detainee abuse photos from Iraq and Afghanistan after Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki warned that Iraq would erupt into violence and that Iraqis would demand that U.S. troops withdraw from Iraq a year earlier than planned, two U.S. military officers, a senior defense official and a State Department official have told McClatchy. In the days leading up to a May 28 deadline to release the photos in response to an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit, U.S. officials, led by Christopher Hill, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, told Maliki that...

At least one picture shows an American soldier apparently raping a female prisoner while another is said to show a male translator raping a male detainee. Further photographs are said to depict sexual assaults on prisoners with objects including a truncheon, wire and a phosphorescent tube.

Gulags, Nukes and a Water Slide: Citizen Spies Lift North Korea's Veil /snip By EVAN RAMSTAD SEOUL -- In the propaganda blitz that followed North Korea's missile launch last month, the country's state media released photos of leader Kim Jong Il visiting a hydroelectric dam and power station. Images from the report showed two large pipes descending a hillside. That was enough to allow Curtis Melvin, a doctoral candidate at George Mason University in suburban Virginia, to pinpoint the installation on his online map of North Korea. Mr. Melvin is at the center of a dozen or so citizen snoops...

U.S. President Barack Obama watches as his younger daughter Sasha plays soccer at the Boys and Girls club in Washington

"Good Morning America" co-host Diane Sawyer worried on Thursday that Barack Obama backtracked "on his pledge to release pictures of U.S. soldiers allegedly torturing terror suspects," fretting that this might be a "cave-in to Dick Cheney and the political right." Later in the show, former Democratic aide-turned journalist George Stephanopoulos appeared on the program to put the best possible spin on the Obama administration's decision to appeal a court decision ordering pictures of alleged abuse released. Talking to co-host Robin Roberts, he offered talking points that could have come straight from White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.

WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain on Thursday welcomed President Obama’s decision to oppose the release of photographs documenting prisoner abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan by United States military personnel, even as criticism continued from groups of the left. “We are still in a war,” said Senator McCain, the Arizona Republican who is a member of the Armed Services Committee. “The publication of those photographs would have given help to the enemy in the psychological side of the war we are in. I applaud the president’s decision." The former Republican presidential candidate made his remarks during a hearing of the armed...

In our view May 14: Obama Flip-Flops By trying to hide truth about prisoner abuse, president abuses public's right to know Thursday, May 14 | 1:00 a.m. Much of President Barack Obama's success in last year's election was based on his promise to foster open government, transparency and accountability. Now he has reversed that course as he tries to block the release of hundreds of photos showing prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan being abused. How many more times will Obama reverse or abandon positions that he articulated in his campaign for the presidency? His reasons for changing his mind in...

The release of dozens of new, graphic images of detainees being abused by their American captors would almost certainly reignite international rage. It could lead to an angry backlash in the Middle East and to more jihadi recruits, as the Abu Ghraib photographs did in 2004. It could even lead to new outbursts of violence at a moment when the Obama administration was finally hoping to put the last eight ugly years behind us. But the truth must out. The Pentagon was right when it agreed last month to abide by a judge's order and release the photos, in a...

The Defense Department is set to release hundreds of photographs showing alleged abuse of prisoners in detention facilities in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Iraqi Ministry of Justice gave journalists an inside look at the prison formerly known as Abu Ghraib. The release is in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. It follows President Obama's decision to release Bush-era CIA documents showing that the U.S. used techniques like waterboarding -- considered torture by the current administration. Photographs released in 2006 of detainees being abused and humiliated at the Abu Ghraib military prison...

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama says the detainee abuse photos he wants to block from release are "not particularly sensational" and would do no good if published. He said he will not tolerate abuse of prisoners. But he also said Wednesday he had directed his legal team to fight the court-ordered release of the photos because he was concerned about how they might affect the safety of U.S. troops. Obama spoke on the South Lawn of the White House, not long after his decision to fight in court to block the photos' release was made public by aides.

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama will try to block the court-ordered release of hundreds of photos showing U.S. troops allegedly abusing prisoners, reversing his position after military commanders warned the graphic images could stoke anti-American sentiment and endanger soldiers. ... The White House announced Obama's decision Wednesday, after top military commanders in the two wars expressed fears that showing the pictures could put their troops at higher risk. ...

On Tuesday, Liz Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, continued the family’s air assault on Obama that began shortly after he became the nation’s first African-American president. Speaking to FOX News, Liz took her father’s criticism of Obama a step further, saying that it appears the president is actually siding with terrorists. The insult was in response to the Obama administration’s decision to release photographs alleged to show abuses at U.S. prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan during the Bush administration. "I think it is really appalling that the administration is taking this step," she said in the...

US President Barack Obama has changed his mind and will now attempt to block the publication of photographs showing the abuse of prisoners by US soldiers. The US government had previously said it would not fight a court ruling ordering the release of the pictures. Mr Obama now believes the release of the photos would make the job of US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan more difficult, White House officials said. The pictures were due to be released by 28 May, according to the court ruling.

<p>The $328,835 snapshots of an Air Force One backup plane buzzing lower Manhattan last week will not be shown to the public, the White House said yesterday.</p> <p>"We have no plans to release them," an aide to President Obama told The Post, refusing to comment further.</p>

ABC runs a report showing the names and faces of two CIA contractors who may have had a role in the waterboarding of KSM and Abu Zubaydah. The network apparently outsourced this report to a freelancer named Matthew Cole, whose record in Nexis includes just three bylines -- two stories for Salon (one of which about "how Bush administration aid to Pakistan helps fund insurgents who kill U.S. troops"), and one for the San Jose Mercury News just two days after 9/11 reporting "anxiety about a backlash" among Muslims, who assure the reporter that the attack "has nothing to do...

IF President Obama were as crafty as, say, Osama bin Laden, you might wonder if his decision last week to release new "torture" photos this month was part of some clever psych-ops scheme. After all, the decision came only a week after Obama & Co. let loose key memos on "brutal" US interrogation techniques. CIA operatives, the memos showed, had "tortured" prisoners and used sinister tactics designed to exploit fears. Now the Obama folks will hand out scores of new photos from investigations at US prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan. So is this some new publicity campaign meant to deter...

The White House now has an official photo page. It's located on Flickr. As you can see, while Americans are suffering, The White House is hard at work... Obama and Biden practice their putting... Rahm Emanuel checks the boxscores... Obama's playing football... Bo takes BO for a walk... Obama screams at child at Easter egg roll (He must have had money on her)... White House staff enjoys a pizza on taxpayer money...

The US Defense Department said Tuesday it is weighing how best to manage the imminent release of photos showing abuse of detainees amid concern about an international backlash. The Pentagon announced last week it had agreed to release hundreds of photos from US-run prisons in Iraq and elsewhere in response to a long-running lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The photos were used as evidence in criminal investigations of US soldiers accused of abusing detainees in the "war on terror" during president George W. Bush's administration. "There is an extensive effort underway in this building, and in Central...

Note: The following text is a quote: Spokesman Cites Pentagon Cooperation in Interrogation Probe By Gerry J. Gilmore American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, April 22, 2009 – The Defense Department provided full cooperation during a U.S. Senate committee investigation that examined detainee-interrogation operations, a senior official said here today. “We fully cooperated with that effort in responding to requests for interviews, as well as documents,” Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman told reporters. The two-year Senate Armed Services Committee investigation centered on examining U.S. interrogation procedures for detainees captured during the war on terrorism. The committee’s report is critical of some interrogation...

WASHINGTON, April 24, 2009 – The Defense Department soon will release a substantial number of photos associated with concluded past investigations of alleged abuse of detainees, a senior official said here today.The photos were used as part of internal military investigations conducted in Iraq and Afghanistan, not including the photos used during allegations of detainee abuse at the Abu Ghraib detention facility in Iraq, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman told reporters. The pending late-May release of the photos comes from an agreement reached between the American Civil Liberties Union, the Justice Department and the Defense Department, Whitman said. The ACLU...

The Department of Defense announced late Thursday that a 'substantial number of photos' depicting abuse of prisoners at prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan will be released. The Department of Defense announced late Thursday that a "substantial number of photos" depicting abuse of prisoners at prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan will be released. The photos are being released in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union in 2004.

Hello folks. I attended the Tax Day Tea Party on the Morristown Green in Morristown, New Jersey. I left about halfway through because I wasn't feeling well -- also because I had to go back to my car anyway (thanks to Morristown's stupid 2-hour parking limit) and decided I'd beat the traffic. I'll leave it to others to describe the speeches etc. However, I took many photos -- and I just got done putting them all up on Flickr! Enjoy. http://www.flickr.com/photos/26962760@N00/sets/72157616731892721

WASHINGTON, April 2, 2009 – A Pentagon working group solicited and obtained input from several military support organizations for a policy change that, under strictly delineated conditions, allows media filming of dignified transfer operations of fallen servicemembers’ remains at Dover Air Force Base, Del., a senior U.S. officer said here yesterday. “There was great appreciation on the parts of the stakeholders that we reached out to them,” Air Force Maj. Gen. Michael J. Basla told reporters during a roundtable at the Pentagon. Basla, the vice director of the Joint Staff’s command, control, communications and computer systems directorate, chaired the...

You know, writing about technology every day, you get used to a certain level of stupidity. But I’m pretty flabbergasted, no outraged, about this story of kids being threatened with jail time for “sexting.” So - check this out: The New York Times reports that 15-year-old Marissa Miller, a Pennsylvania cheerleader, was contacted by District Attorney George P. Skumanick, who said he had a nude photo of her on someone else’s cell phone. He threatened Miller and another girl with charges of sexual abuse of a minor unless she attended a 10-hour class on pornography and sexual violence. Nude photo?...

A St. Cloud lawmaker says he has changed his bill that would have barred all headwear in driver's license photos to allow for religious headwear. Rep. Steve Gottwalt says his new bill is a compromise between public safety and cultural respect. The Republican introduced a bill in 2007 and again this year that would have banned all headwear in driver's license photos to make them easier for law enforcement to use.

Now, if you know what Rule 5 is, you know this is all I can write as the lead-in. If you don't, you will when you click over.

The crowd was fired up and a few well-known conservative bloggers and celebrities were in attendance.

A Lot more photos on the site Soilders at the ready Gotcha Bastard! Peek-a-boo Red sand storm in Iraq Kaboom C-17 Formation. U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft participate in a large formation exercise over the coast of Charleston, S.C., Dec. 21, 2006. Twenty C-17s, assigned to the 437th and 315th Airlift Wings, Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., took part in the largest formation in history from a single base while demonstrating strategic airdrop capabilities of the U.S. Air Force. A lot more photos on the site

Cops: Georgia high school student showed images to classmates FEBRUARY 12--Meet Curtis Pickard. The Georgia student was arrested this week after he allegedly used his cell phone to take "upskirt" photos of a teacher, which he then showed to fellow high schoolers. According to a Columbia County Sheriff's Office report, Pickard, 17, surreptitiously snapped photos of Greenbrier High School teacher Ellen Hotchkiss on Monday. After several students on Tuesday told a school safety officer that he was showing the photos around, the officer seized Pickard's phone. The 33-year-old Hotchkiss, pictured at right, examined the images and "identified her legs and...

The relationship between photographers and police could worsen next month when new laws are introduced that allow for the arrest and imprisonment of anyone who takes pictures of officers 'likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism'. Set to become law on 16 February, the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 amends the Terrorism Act 2000 regarding offences relating to information about members of armed forces, a member of the intelligence services, or a police officer. The new set of rules, under section 76 of the 2008 Act and section 58A of the 2000 Act, will target...

Collection of photos of Pres. Bush with narration by Time photographers Brooks Kraft And Christopher Morris. Runs about 5 mins. It's good.

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Photo #1. BANG!!! Huge bolt of lightning strikes near the control tower and a taxiing C-130 Hercules at Balad Air Base, Iraq, on 16 May 2006. Image ID: 060516-F-0185C-001Photographer: Senior Airman James Croxon, United States Air Force (USAF) Big image link: http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/060516-F-0185C-001.jpgCourtesies: http://www.af.mil/news/story_media.asp?storyID=123020502 (source), http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-20061026.htm (above image), http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/bifurcated/rivets/77#oct282006 ("Bang") Photo #2. And a few seconds later...BANG!!! Yet another way-too-massive lightning bolt hits near the control tower and a taxiing C-130 Hercules at Balad Air Base, Iraq, on 16 May 2006. Image ID: 060516-F-0185C-005Photographer: Senior Airman James Croxon, United States Air ForceBig image link: http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/060516-F-0185C-005.jpgCourtesies: http://www.af.mil/news/story_media.asp?storyID=123020502 (source), http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-20061026.htm (above image),...

A US legal fight over seven nude photographs of Marilyn Monroe taken six weeks before her death has been settled amicably, lawyers have said. The images were taken by photographer Bert Stern at the Bel Air Hotel in Los Angeles in 1962. Mr Stern sued three photographers for $1.7m (£1.2m) last year as he initially believed the pictures had been stolen after lending them to a magazine.

This evening's Antiques Roadshow (from Belfast) had some interesting fortean-tinged items. Unsurprisingly, there were various pieces of Titanic memorabilia but the final segment had the daughter and granddaughter of Frances Griffiths showing the famous Cottingley fairy photographs and a camera given to Griffiths by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to Roadshow expert, Paul Atterbury. You can watch the episode in full on the BBC iPlayer for the next seven days.A few things worth noting from the programme:Frances only admitted that the photographs (bar one) were fakes after she had discovered her cousin Elsie had spoken out about them (Elsie had come...

PYEONGTAEK, South Korea — The U.S. Army is now offering on the Internet a rare and often stark look at Korean War combat captured through the lenses of military photographers and other cameramen. The images — which also document the plight of Korea’s war-stricken refugees — provide a broad look at the 1950 to 1953 war that ravaged the peninsula and led to a U.S. military presence in South Korea that continues to this day. Installation Management Command-Korea posted more than 40 video clips and about 150 still photos from Defense Department archives that show all the services in action....

One of many photos of the War during the Past 2 days. Link to other images is: http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=56171

How does one post pictures, or add them to a post? I know it's probably pretty simple, but any help is appreciated thanks

Merry Christmas my fellow Freepers and Fine Friends! Here we are on the Monday before Christmas, and I am looking for great new Christmas pictures this week that I can feature on the front page of my website. I have a place reserved at my site that usually sees 3-4 of the snarkiest political cartoons that I can find, but this week I want to do things a bit differently. I know I must be part Japanese the way I favor a digital camera, and I'm sure I'm not alone. I'll put up a few of my own offerings, and...

HUNTSVILLE, ONT. — ARTICLE SNIPPET: "On Friday, Aug. 8, a vehicle pulled into the Pow Wow parking lot and discharged six men, all dressed in what the locals would call "city clothes" - including dark slacks and leather-soled dress shoes. Without bothering to check with the office, they went down to the beach and began taking photographs of each other, each time with Deerhurst - including the cupola that rides over the main building - in the background." ARTICLE SNIPPET: "These six English-speaking men appeared to be of Middle-Eastern origin. But what really set them apart was their complete unfamiliarity...

Great collection of ads and photos from Americas past! Some examples... From Shorpy From Plan59

Every four years, Newsweek detaches several reporters to go behind the scenes with the presidential candidates, gathering exclusive material on the condition that none of it is published until after Election Day.

Post-election, the former VP nominee strips down and soaks up some rays in Miami.Posted on 11/14/2008 12:39 PM by Celebuzz Things may not have worked out so well for Sarah Palin in the election, but John McCain's former running mate is already experiencing sunny days again. The Alaska governor—who caught some heat for her expensive campaign wardrobe—hit the pool in Miami in considerably less ostentatious clothes yesterday, donning a pair of skimpy shorts while basking in the tropical climate of Florida. The 44-year-old former beauty queen was in town for a gathering of the Republican Governors Association yesterday, where GOP...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2098192/posts?page=71 I thought everyone would like to see this thread again!