Feds will NOT be releasing Abu Ghraib pics as ordered by court but,

[rodeodance]

instead has only authenticated them. see discussion in LBN also.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2220032

Mon Apr-10-06 10:37 PM
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Government Authenticates Photos From Abu Ghraib
By Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 11, 2006; Page A16

Nearly two years after graphic photographs of detainee abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were published worldwide, the U.S. government yesterday for the first time authenticated 74 of the images as being part of the original compact disc that was turned over to Army investigators in January 2004.

Responding to a federal court order as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union in New York, Justice Department lawyers wrote in court papers that the previously published images "are identical" to those that investigators have used to look into abuse at the prison. Included among the images are such photos as Pvt. Lynndie R. England holding a leash attached to a naked detainee's neck, a detainee with female underwear placed on his head, detainees shackled to cell doors and beds in painful positions, and others piled in a naked pyramid. The iconic photograph of a detainee standing on a cardboard box, cloaked and hooded with wires coming from his hands, is also among the pictures.
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Avoiding an actual government release of the images, Justice Department lawyers instead authenticated photographs that were already up on the Salon Web site, using court papers to refer to the images by number. ACLU lawyers were also provided with one additional photograph -- which appears to be two detainees with their arms around each other and their faces edited out of the image -- and the government declined to provide an additional 29 photographs that ACLU lawyers said they are going to fight to see.
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Defense Department officials, including top generals, have opposed releasing the images, arguing that they could set off major unrest in Muslim nations. The images a federal judge in New York ordered the government to release, it turns out, largely were the same images that already have been published.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...

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1. it seems to be one thing after another! over and over!

[marmar]

2. No doubt...

This "we're above the law" attitude permeates this entire administration.

[Kutjara]

3. I think I'll try this tactic if I'm ever in court.

Judge: Hand over your tax records for the last five years, together with the contents of your email accounts.

Me: No way, Your Honor, but I'll give you a handwritten summary of the important bits instead. The rest is entirely above board and of no possible interest to the court. Believe me, I wouldn't lie.

Judge: Seems fair. Case dismissed.



Yeah, that's what'll happen all right.

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4. It is the idea that they can spend money 'authenticating" pics, and

creating reasons/excuses year after year--that just gets to me!