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Obama Administration to Release Detainee Abuse Photos;...

Posted by Gabrielle Cusumano on Friday, April 24, 2009 1:34:37 PM
Former CIA Official Says Former Colleagues 'Don't Believe They Have Cover Anymore'

April 24, 2009 10:23 AM ABC NEWS  http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/04/obama-adminis

"There's nothing to be gained from it. There's no substantive reason why those photos have to be released." Lowenthal said.

Lowenthal said the president's moves in the last week have left many in the CIA dispirited, based on "the undercurrent I've been getting from colleagues still in the building, or colleagues who have left not that long ago."

"We ask these people to do extremely dangerous things, things they've been ordered to do by legal authorities, with the understanding that they will get top cover if something goes wrong," Lowenthal says. "They don't believe they have that cover anymore." Releasing the photographs "will make it much worse," he said. "

Obama Administration to Release Detainee Abuse Photos; Former CIA Official Says Former Colleagues 'Don't Believe They Have Cover Anymore'

April 24, 2009 10:23 AM   http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/04/obama-adminis-3.html

In a letter from the Justice Department to a federal judge yesterday, the Obama administration announced that the Pentagon would turn over to the American Civil Liberties Union 44 photographs showing detainee abuse of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq during the Bush administration.

The photographs are part of a 2003 Freedom of Information Act request by the ACLU...(continue at ABC News at: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/04/obama-adminis-3.html    

My only son is 20 years old and is now serving in Iraq....If he is heaven forbid hurt or killed because of some uptick in jihadi violence caused by the release of these pictures.....well...let's just say,God help you pantywaist bedwetting ACLU Obama treasonous clowns. Understand? UNDERSTAND?? Posted by: Joe Colorado | Apr 24, 2009 1:25:59 PM
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Barack Obama to release up to 2,000 photographs of prisoner abuse

President Barack Obama is to release up to 2,000 photographs of alleged abuse at American prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan in a move which will reignite the scandal surrounding Abu Ghraib prison in 2004.

President Barack Obama is to release up to 2,000 photographs of alleged abuse at American prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan in a move which will reignite the scandal surrounding Abu Ghraib prison in 2004. The decision to make public the images sought in a legal action by the American Civil Liberties Union comes amid a political firestorm over alleged torture of detainees under President George W. Bush. Some of the photographs, which will be released before May 28, are said to show American service personnel humiliating prisoners, according to officials. The images relate to more than 400 separate cases involving...
 
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