Congress To Keep Detainee Abuse Photos Hidden
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Michael Shaw | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics
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...
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...
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...
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...
Rick Horowitz | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics
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, ...
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...
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...
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...
AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics