Detainee Photos Offer Yet Another Sticking Point for War Spending Bill

[babylonsister]

Detainee Photos Offer Yet Another Sticking Point for War Spending Bill


As House leaders struggle to line up enough Democratic support to pass a war spending measure, two senators are fighting to keep in the final version a provision that would block release of detainee photographs.

Senate Armed Services Committee members Joseph I. Lieberman , I-Conn., and Lindsey Graham , R-S.C., said they will oppose the war supplemental without that provision, which would shield the detainee photographs from release under the Freedom of Information Act.

“The president has said that the release of the photos of detainees in U.S. custody would put our troops and civilians serving our nation abroad in greater danger; we agree with the commander in chief,” the senators said in a joint statement.

The Senate adopted the prohibition as an amendment to its version of the bill. But many liberal Democrats in the House, already opposed to spending more money on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, oppose the White House effort to keep the photos away from public view.

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[Eric J in MN]

1. Joe Lieberman doesn't want the public to see what his pro-torture policies...

...lead to in practice.

Lieberman is disgusting.