Obama admin. & Congress trying hard to cover for Bush admin.

[G_j]

Congress set to act to keep abuse photos hidden

Congress is set to allow the Pentagon to keep new pictures of foreign detainees abused by their U.S. captors from the public, a move intended to end a legal fight over the photographs' release that has reached the Supreme Court.

Federal courts have so far rejected the government's arguments against the release of 21 color photographs showing prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq being abused by Americans.

The Obama administration believes giving the imminent grant of authority over the release of such pictures to the defense secretary would short-circuit a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union under the Freedom of Information Act.

The White House is asking the justices to put off consideration of the case until after a vote on the measure in the House and Senate, as early as next week. The provision is part of a larger homeland security spending bill and would allow the defense secretary to withhold photographs relating to detainees by certifying their release would endanger soldiers or other government workers.

Read more:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091010/ap_on_go_co/us_abuse_photos_congress


discussion in LBN:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4097966

[ixion]

1. yeah, it's pathetic

I am just as disgusted with Bush-era policies as I was when Bush was in office. Keeping these policies in place and/or covering up their criminality is symptomatic of what is wrong with our government.

[joeycola]

2. and sadly, we can include many Dems in this.

[G_j]

5. yes, neither can I comprehend the disconnect

it must take to have one's hair on fire over Bush policies, and then give those policies a pass, now that he's out of office.
:shrug:

[G_j]

3. kick for the unrecs

Dick and George, is that you?

[bigwillq]

4. Terrible.

:mad:

[bvar22]

6. Wrong when Bush did it.

Still wrong.

Protecting a bad policy by hiding the photos, like that can make it go away.
In a way, they are right. If you don't have photos, it didn't happen.
Rumsfeld never cared about the abuse at abu-Ghraib....It was the photos that worried him.

Its our secrets that keep us sick.

K&R

[Individualist]

7. "The Democratic Leadership Council's agenda

is indistinguishable from the Republican Neoconservative agenda," - Dennis Kucinich

[LWolf]

8. What else, and what next

from the nation's, and the world's, "beacon of hope?"

:(

[G_j]

10. I guess it depends on

which Bush crimes need to be swept under the rug..
:shrug:

[Orwellian_Ghost]

9. K&R

[earth mom]

11. Same shit, different day. nt

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

12. But, "Transparency in Government" made such a swell slogan. K&R

But, lame excuses for covering up crimes is the reality.

[Karmadillo]

13. But for awhile they gave us hope they would release the photos. Isn't that enough? Must you people

always ask for more?

[G_j]

14. so hope is a placebo..

now I'm getting it..

[Karmadillo]

15. Until we hear the hoofbeats of our ponies arriving, hope will have to do.

nt