Court: US can keep bin Laden photos under wraps

[DonViejo]

Source: AP


BY FREDERIC J. FROMMER

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court is backing the U.S. government’s decision not to release photos and video taken of Osama bin Laden during and after a raid in which the terrorist leader was killed by U.S. commandos.

The three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia turned down an appeal Tuesday from Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, which had filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the images.

The court said that the CIA properly withheld publication of the images. The court concluded that the photos used to conduct facial recognition analysis of bin Laden could reveal classified intelligence methods — and that images of bin Laden’s burial at sea could trigger violence against American citizens.

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Read more: http://www.salon.com/2013/05/21/court_us_can_keep_bin_laden_photos_under_wraps/

[gopiscrap]

1. THat's just asking for all the tin foil hatters to come

out of the closet!

[DonViejo]

2. The flying monkeys will need a new angle though...

they were convinced the President would release the pictures in the closing weeks/days of the 2012 election.

[dipsydoodle]

3. They are in fact

the sole confirmation of exactly what happened with regard to which I don't really give a shit anyway.