The Pentagon photos of prisoners case maybe appealed

Fox News:

Some lawmakers are questioning the wisdom of releasing hundreds of photos potentially showing U.S. military personnel abusing prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York City and the Pentagon.

"If we release the pictures, the odds are that Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups will then use our pictures to recruit people to come into the war against us," Sen. Joe Lieberman. I-Conn., told FOX News.

The Pentagon plans to release the photos by May 28 in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. The move comes after the Justice Department lost its latest round in federal court and concluded that any further appeal probably would be fruitless.

But critics of the move say it will become a sequel to the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq, which caused an international backlash against the U.S., with photos in 2004 of grinning U.S. soldiers posing with detainees, some naked, being held on leashes or in painful positions.

Lieberman and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., urged President Obama in a letter to "fight" the release of the photos.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs was noncommittal about the president's position.

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A recent military study found a troubling connection. The study, based on the interrogation of 48 detainees, concluded that a motivating factor for bombers was the humiliation of Muslims, depicted in the photos shown repeatedly in the Arab media and on the Internet.

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Maybe that is the motivating factor for the ACLU too. Their arguments for releasing the photos are not as persuasive to me as they have been to the lower courts. I think their release is also a violation of the Geneva Conventions prohibitions against releasing degrading pictures of detainees. The media does not seem to be too keen about that requirement. Perhaps Obama can lean on the ACLU line he leaned on the Chrysler creditors.

Liz Cheney also makes the case against the release of the photos.

Comments

  1. Carolina Conservative11:34 PM

    I don't think the ACLU even cares. They are so anti-American. I wouldn't be surprised if they don't want these to fire up the Islamic radicals.

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