Posted on 03/28/2006 8:26:50 PM PST by jmc1969
NEW YORK - The federal government has agreed to release disputed pictures showing American soldiers tormenting Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison, the American Civil Liberties Union said Tuesday.
Erica Pelletreau, a spokeswoman for the ACLU, said the pictures would be released within a week if a federal judge approves the deal.
Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein had ordered the release of the pictures from the infamous Baghdad prison over complaints by government lawyers, who complained that doing so would incite violence against U.S. troops in Iraq and provoke terrorists.
The Department of Defense had appealed that order but planned to drop the appeal, the ACLU said.
The judge ordered the pictures released earlier this year, saying terrorists "do not need pretexts for their barbarism" and that suppressing the pictures would amount to submitting to blackmail.
"Our nation does not surrender to blackmail, and fear of blackmail is not a legally sufficient argument to prevent us from performing a statutory command," he said. "Indeed, the freedoms that we champion are as important to our success in Iraq and Afghanistan as the guns and missiles with which our troops are armed."
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Well...Chrissy Matthews won't have dry pair of undies for a while now...
Interesting. They have changed the term from torturing to tormenting Iraqi detainees.
The Brokeback Mountaineers down at the aCLU are really expanding their S&M collections. They love this stuff and just can't get enough. The "judges" sound like they are big collectors too.
When the photos are released someone should take them down to the nearest ACLU and make them eat the things.
Why not just go ahead and kill some American Soldiers to appease the ACLU?
Can somebody, please, gather photos of an ACLU Christmas... I mean, Solstice party and post them. I bet we won't be able to tell the difference between them and photos from Abu Graib.
We need to start posting 911 pictures when these pictures come up.
mods are going get me for sure.
Let them do their traitorous deeds with their own money
That looks like the real world to me.
How about a class action lawsuit against the ACLU? Oh, the mental anguish!
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