US Supreme Court suppresses torture photos

[Hannah Bell]

The US Supreme Court on Monday nullified an appeals court order that would have obligated the Obama administration to release photographs depicting US soldiers subjecting prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq to horrific acts of torture.

In an unsigned three-sentence decision in the case, Department of Defense v. ACLU, 09-160, the Supreme Court granted an Obama administration petition vacating the order and sent the case back to the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York, telling the lower court it must review the case in light of a law passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama in October.

The law in question was written as a specific response to the circuit court’s ruling in October 2008 requiring that the photos be released. Attached to an appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security and signed into law by Obama, it gave Secretary of Defense Robert Gates the power to suppress the torture photos if he determines they may threaten US military operations. Gates invoked the measure on November 13.

It is now anticipated that the circuit court will side with the Obama administration and rule against the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU.)

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/dec2009/tort-d02.shtml

[Diclotican]

1. Hannah Bell

Hannah Bell

Oh, not just some bad apples anymore?:sarcasm: Not just some rouge soldiers who got astray for their mission off peace anymore:sarcasm:

The amazing about this, and the horrible of this, is that they who did it, tortured also took the pictures to prove it too. Many other regimes who had used the old torture regime at least had the mind to not take pictures... The germans, for all their evils was at least able to NOT take all this pictures for what they did to others.. Even tho they did took some pictures, it is close to nothing compared to the pain and suffering they did do to their prisoners...

But as all goes, everything wrong a country do, will after a while be known to man. It will just take some time.. And they might blow up in anyone places when they can't be controlled sometimes down the road.. Like 6 month, to a year from now.. I know it happened in mr Bush's term, but I am not trustworthy about this, and I fear that mr Obama can have this hit him hard, very hard just around the corner.. In 2010 and 2012 he can be hit hard by leaks.. The Republicans is capable of everything to get this "black man" off the White house.. Even if they have to steal, and lie to get a "white man" in the white house again..

Diclotican

[mmonk]

2. Thanks Hannah Bell.

Puts the lie to Ametican rhetoric and founding concepts.

[blindpig]

3. k&r

[rhett o rick]

4. Once again big brother thinks we cant handle the truth. nt