Detainee Photos

Congress To Keep Detainee Abuse Photos Hidden

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — Congress is set to allow the Pentagon to keep new pictures of foreign detainees abused by their U.S. captors from the public, a mov...

Obama Admin Asks Supreme Court To Block Detainee Photos

Politico | Josh Gerstein | Posted 09.08.2009 | Politics


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 reve...

Releasing Detainee Photos Would Bring More Harm To Victims: Commentary

nytimes.com | WILLIAM QUINN | Posted 08.26.2009 | World


DESPITE demands by human rights advocates that photos documenting abuse of military detainees be made public, the Senate last month passed legislation...

Mullen "Infuriated ... Appalled" By Suppressed Detainee Abuse Photos

CNN | Mike Mount | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics


Images of detainee abuse at the hands of U.S. troops, which President Obama has barred from public view, so "infuriated" the nation's highest-ranking ...

Sam Stein

Graham: Rahm Doesn't Want Detainee Photos Released

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics


Senator Lindsey Graham said on Wednesday, that the White House had assured him that the president was still committed to preventing the release of pho...

No Proof Detainee Photos Led to Military Deaths

CQ Politics | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics


The U.S. government's case for embargoing the release of photographs said to depict abuse of detainees rests largely on a questionable claim that disc...

Appeals Court Blocks Release Of Detainee Photos

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics


NEW YORK — The U.S. government can keep pictures of detainee abuse secret while it asks the Supreme Court to permanently block release of the ph...

Harry Reid: Interrogation Photos "Are Not Going To Be Released"

Politico | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics


Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid just made two seemingly contradictory assertions: First, that so-called "torture" photos of interrogations won't ev...

Clinton Says Release Of Detainee Photos Could Endanger U.S. Diplomats

The Plum Line | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics


I noted here yesterday that at a press conference, Senator Lindsey Graham disclosed that Hillary Clinton had privately confided to him that she worrie...

Jeff Muskus

Lieberman, Graham Threaten To Shut Down Senate Over Detainee Photos

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics


Sens. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) lambasted transparency advocates at a press conference Tuesday, when they renewed their p...

Jeff Muskus

House Dems Want Hearings On Detainee Photos Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics


House Democrats are insisting on hearings before they even consider signing onto the Senate's move to suppress detainee photographs, House Financial S...

Jeff Muskus

Lieberman, Graham Seek To Block Torture Photos At All Costs

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics


With the war supplemental under fire from some unlikely allies in the House, Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) threatened Mond...

Reading The Pictures: Monsters of Gitmo

Michael Shaw | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics


Michael Shaw

2009-06-02-gitmo20_06.jpg In the past weeks and days, new photos have been released of Gitmo prisoners.

Obama Flip-Flopped On Detainee Photos Because Iraqi President Feared Violence

McClatchy | Nancy A. Youssef | Posted 07.02.2009 | World


WASHINGTON President Barack Obama reversed his decision to release detainee abuse photos from Iraq and Afghanistan after Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al...

Jimmy Carter Disagrees With Obama Decision To Block Detainee Photos

The Huffington Post | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics


In an interview with CNN's Campbell Brown, former president Jimmy Carter said he disagreed with President Obama's decision to oppose the release of ph...

David Axelrod Defends Move To Block Release Of Detainee Photos (VIDEO)

Posted 06.14.2009 | Home


Scroll down for video and full transcript White House senior adviser David Axelrod strongly defended President Obama's effort to block the release of...

Jason Linkins

To Disclose Or Not Disclose: Obama's Decision On Detainee Photos Analyzed

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics


In case you were wondering, I am of the opinion that President Barack Obama's decision to not release those detainee abuse photos is a mistake. The d...

Obama and His Base: Disillusioned, Yet Again

Rick Horowitz | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics


Rick Horowitz

It was the gnawing in his gut that gave it away, that creepy-crawly upset in the pre-dawn darkness. He turned himself to one side, then to the other, ...

Sam Stein

Feingold Rebukes Obama For Detainee Photo Reversal

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics


Senator Russ Feingold became one of the first elected officials to criticize Barack Obama for his reversal on releasing of detainee abuse in a stateme...

Sam Stein

Obama Broke His Word On Detainee Photos: Chief ACLU Lawyer

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics


The lawyer pushing for the release of photographs showing the harsh treatment of suspected terrorist detainees said President Barack Obama was backtra...

Detainee Photos: Obama Seeks To Block Release

AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama declared Wednesday he would try to block the court-ordered release of photos showing U.S. troops abusing pri...