According To Rep. Louise Slaughter, the WH asked that the torture photos be kept hidden.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

This was neatly done by placing the determination of those photos within the H.R. 2892, The Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2010

http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_2892.html

(Sec. 567) Detainee Photographic Records Protection Act of 2009 - Requires the Secretary of Defense to: (1) certify any photograph taken between September 11, 2001, and January 22, 2009, that relates to the treatment of individuals engaged, captured, or detained after September 11, 2001, by the U.S. Armed Forces in operations outside of the United States if the Secretary determines that disclosure of such photograph would endanger U.S. citizens or members of the Armed Forces or U.S. government employees deployed outside the United States; and (2) submit timely notice of such certification to Congress. Authorizes the Secretary to submit a renewal of a certification at any time. Provides that a certification or a renewal shall expire after three years. Exempts such a certified photograph from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), but does not preclude voluntary disclosure.

OPEN FOIA Act of 2009 - Amends FOIA to require statutory exemptions to its disclosure requirements to specifically cite its provision that authorizes such exemptions.

http://www.truthout.org/101709A

Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-New York) said in a floor statement that the provision to amend the Freedom of Information Act was stripped from an earlier version of the bill, but the language was quietly reinserted in recent weeks, "apparently under direct orders from the administration."

Rep. Louise Slaughter's House Floor Speech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qADMDj1lk0o

Rep. Slaughter is one of the best members of Congress we have.

[tbyg52]

1. K&R nt

[flyarm]

2. slap me silly and call me surprised! not..I guess Rep Slaughter is a whinner now ???????n/t

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

3. I think because It Is Rep Slaughter, that there are no negative responses to

what she said, but on the other hand, only 2 responses on this thread? Where is the outrage, or was that only when Shrub was in power.

I want to :puke:

[flyarm]

4. I am surprised that there aren't 50 unrec's by the cheerleader group! n/t

[AllentownJake]

5. They hang out in GDP and watch for things to make the greatest

Than they come out in force

[QC]

6. Do you hear that sound off in the distance? n/t

[AllentownJake]

8. Sounds like a High School pep rally from hell. n/t

[flyarm]

9. + 10,000!!!!! lol

hurry someone steal the pom poms!!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

10. Jake

:yourock:

[bvar22]

18. ...the approach of angry Pom-Poms ?

LOL.

Who was the DUer who created that finely turned phrase?
I remember reading it a couple of days ago, and laughing until snot came out of my nose, but I can't remember who it was.
Was it you?

[QC]

20. 'Twas I.

The post was promptly deleted, though.

[bvar22]

23. Kudos to you.

Tis the stuff of DU legend.
I see my reference hasn't been deleted (yet).
If it goes down the memory hole, there will always be the oblique reference.
:toast:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

7. Ah......

so that's how they do it.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

12. ......

[Karmadillo]

11. Kick.

nt

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

13. Rug meets broom. K&R

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

17. No kidding.....

[Solly Mack]

14. K&R

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

15. Kick.

[Hubert Flottz]

16. K&R

"If they have nothing to hide, what are they afraid of," George W. Bush

[bvar22]

19. If the photos are released,

...the demand for prosecutions would overwhelm the Obama Administration.
I fear they would no longer be able to protect their friends in the Republican Party.

Rumsfeld KNEW that Torture wasn't the problem.
They could easily talk their way out of that.

The problem was (and is) Photos of Torture that would inflame The American Public who would DEMAND accountability.

[EFerrari]

22. Precisely or to quote Rumsfeld, "Ah, digital cameras." n/t

[Bluenorthwest]

21. "He who does not punish evil commands it to occur."

Leonardo DaVinci

[bvar22]

24. Updated Edmund Burke:

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."---Edmund Burke


Updated to the 21st Century:

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to hide the photos.


I've always disagreed with a part of this quote.

"Good Men" don't "do nothing".
Weak Men "do nothing".
Good Men ACT.
Good men don't hide the photos.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

25. Thank you!