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Why is the Government Continuing to Suppress These Photos? And Why Should We Show Them? PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 27 May 2009 06:39

 By Debra Sweet

 There are some 2,000 photos not released by the Defense Department under Bush, which the ACLU is still seeking.  What difference does it make if people see more photos of the detainee torture and abuse? 
 
Well, you could ask what interest the Obama administration has in suppressing them.  It's true that much of this information is already known, given the leaks by foreign press, and people in the US military who originally, and courageously, in some cases, took the photos and made them public.  But the fact that the government can suppress them with impunity, on the excuse that releasing them will endanger American military more than the fact that torture and indefinite detention of civilians is widespread and systemic from Iraq, Afghanistan, and in Guantanamo and the Bush secret prisons, is an outrage.
 

 


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