Senate OKs bill to keep detainee photos private

[cal04]

updated 14 minutes ago
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/17/detainee.photos/index.html?section=cnn_latest

The Senate Wednesday passed by unanimous consent a bill that would prevent the release of controversial photos of alleged U.S. abuse of prisoners and detainees.

The bill, sponsored by Sens. Joe Lieberman, I-Connecticut, and Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, had originally been part of the war funding supplemental bill passed Tuesday by the House.

But House Democrats stripped that part of the measure from the bill, and the senators proposed it as stand-alone legislation.

Earlier Wednesday, Graham said at a Judiciary Committee hearing that he had received assurance from White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel "that the president will not let these photos see the light of day."

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The Graham-Lieberman bill will now go to the House, where its passage is doubtful.

[slipslidingaway]

1. thanks for the update n/t

[mmonk]

2. We have representatives in the House that support the rule of law

and the Constitution of the United States. Hopefully it will die there despite the Republican and Bush Democrats in the Senate efforts in this move.

[chill_wind]

3. And if Congress doesn't pass it, don't rule out an executive order.

Obama may sign order banning abuse photos (Hoyer)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=8478664&mesg_id=8478664

[dflprincess]

4. These must be so bad that there is no way war crimes trials

for Bush, etal could be avoided if they were made public.

The administration can claim it's being done to protect the troops in Iraq - but I'm sure the people there already know more about what's gone on than we do. The real purpose is to protect Bush, Cheney & Rumsfeld.

[Hawkeye-X]

5. It'll be stripped out of conference AGAIN..

and Obama won't sign the EO unless he wants to get his ass spanked for violating the FOIA...

Hawkeye-X

[chill_wind]

6. ...

Hello??

[JustinL]

7. what happened with Feingold and Sanders?

They both voted against the supplemental when it contained this garbage as an amendment.

[ThomWV]

12. I believe they (and all other Progressives) have been told to go fuck themselves

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

14. Unanimous consent is not a roll call vote. I think that if the joint bill comes back and requires

a roll vote, Feingold and Sanders will vote no.

[madeline_con]

8. They don't have to release them. We already know what they show.

Burn in hell Bush regime.

[Solly Mack]

9. K&R

[chill_wind]

10. morning kick. n/t

[ThomWV]

11. This is a remarkable failure of citizen/government reminiscent of totalitarian states

Government secrecy is illegitimate in every case.

[SoCalDem]

13. Actually, if they are released, due to no legitimate case against them

or if they were falsely imprisoned for 7 years, why should their faces and life stories be plastered all over the media? There are dangers to them, if the freepy/minutemen types decide to mete out their own "justice".

Perhaps they should be placed into a witness-protection type of status, so they can truly re-start their lives.