Obama Admin Asks Supreme Court To Block Detainee Photos

Politico:

The Obama Administration is asking the Supreme Court to block the public release of detainee abuse photos that were the subject of a high-profile reversal by President Barack Obama earlier this year.

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Comments

[VanillaCreme]

04:41 PM on 08/10/2009

When are our Troops coming home from Afghanastan? We just doubled them over there. Did Obama give the Afghan Government a timetable of getting their act together?

Why aren't these a concern now?

[blueskybigstar]

01:01 PM on 08/10/2009

Hoping that Obama's request is denied.

[JohnHKennedy]

09:55 AM on 08/10/2009

Obama needs to state which side he is on- of enforcing our Laws or Protecting The Lawbreakers. So far he seems to be protecting them

Only Prosecution deters Federal crimes, only Prosecution deters Abuse of our Constitution

The only effective way we the voters can stop Torture from happening is to fight for Prosecution of all of those in public office who violate Federal Laws (especially Torture ).

We need to start with Bush, Cheney and their Torture Advocating appointees Lawyers.

We have to make an example of the Bush criminals or it will happen again and again until we lose our most cherished freedoms.

SIGN THE PETITIONS
Demanding
both a Commission of Inquiry
and a Special Prosecutor
For All Their Crimes
at ANGRYVOTERS.ORG

http://ANGRYVOTERS.ORG
.

[LemonMeringue]

12:53 AM on 08/10/2009

Why?????????????

What is wrong with people knowing the TRUTH?

[cliffhammond]

04:07 AM on 08/10/2009

Then they'll begin to think we're not Christian and the saviors of the world, the land of the free and the home of the brave.

[norepublicanleftbehind]

09:50 PM on 08/09/2009

I Thought I voted for change.

[cliffhammond]

04:08 AM on 08/10/2009

he, he, he, he, he, he, he

[PhilipTaylor]

08:31 PM on 08/09/2009

American's Imaginations and exposure to this Corrupt Society will result in these Pictures being a "NONE SURPRISE!"

Same goes for the rest of the WORLD who have seen Ab_u Gh_ra!b Pr!s0n!

[Bcasey11]

07:20 PM on 08/09/2009

Obama protects torturers, who knew it. maybe he ordered some toture

[cliffhammond]

04:13 AM on 08/10/2009

You know what? I really don't think he's in charge.

[Bcasey11]

07:15 PM on 08/09/2009

can someone say fraternal organization(military) gone wild, were looking at ritual torture.

[cliffhammond]

04:15 AM on 08/10/2009

Oh but what's a little frat house fun and games?

[Zen0469]

04:14 PM on 08/09/2009

Good Halloween costume for John Boehner. Color coordinated with his spray on tan.

[abouttime]

03:26 PM on 08/09/2009

On Wed, August 5 Democracy Now! interviewed "conservative British parliamentarian David Davis about the Obama administration’s attempts to suppress evidence" in"a torture case in the British courts.

DAVID DAVIS: We have in Britain at the moment a court case underway about torture. It’s one of, we think, fifteen cases of really serious torture..... That case is beginning to show complicity in that torture on the part of British intelligence agencies.


The judges want to release some information to the public,...and they have not been able to, because the US administration has written to the court, written to the foreign office and then to the court, saying if they release this sort of information, they’ll cut off intelligence cooperation or reduce intelligence cooperation with the United Kingdom. Now, that’s a serious threat.... We can’t do it, because the Americans are stopping us.


AMY GOODMAN: Clive Stafford Smith, Binyam Mohamed’s lawyer, sent a letter to President Obama, and they’re being threatened for sending the letter containing information about what happened to him.

DAVID DAVIS: Yeah.

AMY GOODMAN: Explain it.

DAVID DAVIS: Well, that was astonishing. .... And to make the point about how restrictive the government was being, Clive included that letter, sending it to the President, and he was told that’s an offense. Now, to tell your president what’s going on is offense seems really rather strange.

For Full Transcript of interview go to Democracynow.org

[KnowzyRowzy]

04:22 PM on 08/09/2009

Obama is turning out to be just as ruthless as his cousin Chee ney.

[tallyho1]

08:18 PM on 08/09/2009

I think Obama and Chavez are buddies!!!!

[CigarGod]

12:16 PM on 08/09/2009

Gee, the scotus outcome is hard to predict...not.

Here's an ex plod ing cigar for them all...in advance.

[piul05]

06:39 PM on 08/09/2009

:-)

[Dreamwalker420]

10:59 AM on 08/09/2009

Obama bares his true stipes? eh?

[texanna]

09:46 AM on 08/09/2009

Just about the only nation that doesn't know about this is US! Until We the People see what has been done in Our name we won't fully understand why "they" hate us! I guarantee you, it's not for our freedom.

[piul05]

10:52 AM on 08/09/2009

Couldn't put it better myself.

[Ozzygirl]

01:12 PM on 08/09/2009

Totally agree with you.. well said..

[Elyriaohio]

07:27 AM on 08/09/2009

We've already proven that we have tortured. More pictures will prove it more?
More pictures would only recruit more martyrs.
We need to focus on the ECONOMY, JOBS and HEALTHCARE right now.
We can prosecute the war criminals later.

[AguynamedWayne]

07:54 AM on 08/09/2009

So much for the promise of "transparency" It seems we've made an enemy of the truth.

[Peter007]

09:48 AM on 08/09/2009

No no. The 'Criminals" will get old and the evidence will disappear. Health care reform won't be enacted for 4 years after it is actually passed. Its years out into the future.
There is only a few months window of opportunity to go after the war criminals.

[greatscot]

04:39 AM on 08/09/2009

Just like Japan pretends war crimes never happened by hiding the truth, and teaching their children lies, are we, the United States of America to join in this sad and easily de-bunked exercise?

Yeah, go ahead and lie. When the truth comes out, the reality will be that we are not only war criminals, but propagandistic liars to boot!