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Aiming for the
late Friday media vacumm… Background June 02 2005: Judge orders release of more videos from Abu Ghraib
prison http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-06-02-detainee-records_x.htm Judge tells Army to release Abu Ghraib pictures: 100 images, videos http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8078240/ July 22, 2005 Bush administration blocks release of 2nd
set of Darby Abu Ghraib photos On July 22, the
Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) denounced the latest efforts of
the Bush Administration to block the release of the Darby photos and videos
depicting torture at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison facility. On June 2, 2004,
CCR, along with the ACLU, Physicians for Human Rights, Veterans for Common
Sense, and Veterans for Peace filed papers with the U.S. District Court,
charging the Department of Defense and other government agencies with illegally
withholding records concerning the abuse of detainees in American military
custody. Since then, the organizations have been repeatedly rebuffed in their
efforts to investigate what happened at the prison. In June, the
government requested and received an extension from the judge stating that they
needed time in order to redact the faces of the men, women and children
believed to be shown in the photographs and videos. They were given until
today to produce the images, but at the eleventh hour filed a motion to oppose
the release of the photos and videos, based on an entirely new argument:
they are now requesting a 7(F) exemption from disclosure under the Freedom of
Information Act to
withhold law enforcement-related information in order to protect the physical
safety of individuals. Today's move is the latest in a series of attempts by
the government to keep the images from being made public and to cover up the
torture of detainees in U.S. custody around the world. http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/reports/report.asp?ObjID=imOUU2rj8m&Content=608 Let’s see….London
bombings, coalition forces pulling out, insurgents holding ground, military recruitment
numbers declining, poll numbers in a dive, Rove on the hot seat, Libby and Bolton
fingerprints on Plamegate, Roberts nomination seeking soft landing, energy
prices still high… Hmmmm. |
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