I would have bet money on this! If there's nothing to hide (birth certificate, school transcripts, secret back room dealings) one doesn't hide it.
So much for 0's "transparent government" B http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/05/obama-decides-w hether-to-release-dead-bin-laden-photos/1 May 04, 2011 Obama to CBS: I won't release dead bin Laden photos * By David Jackson <http://content.usatoday.com/topics/reporter/David+Jackson> , USA TODAY By Pete Souza, AP President Obama told CBS's <http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20059739-503544.html?tag=breakingnew s> 60 Minutes today that he will not release photos of Osama bin Laden's corpse. Obama made the declaration during a taped interview to be broadcast in full Sunday night, CBS reported. CBS did not release quotes from the interview, but said it would broadcast portions on its evening newscast. Some aides and members of Congress had objected to release gruesome photos of bin Laden -- who was shot in the head -- because they could increase the threats to Americans overseas. "The risks of release outweigh the benefits," said Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., who chairs the House Intelligence Committee. "Conspiracy theorists around the world will just claim the photos are doctored anyway, and there is a real risk that releasing the photos will only serve to inflame public opinion in the Middle East." Earlier post: CIA Director Leon Panetta, in media interviews and briefings to members of Congress, had indicated that the administration planned to release post-mortem pictures of bin Laden, though other White House officials said a final decision had not been made. The administration also has video of bin Laden's burial at sea, shortly after the world's leading terrorist was shot to death by a Navy SEAL during a weekend raid. "I don`t think there was any question that, ultimately, a photograph would be presented to the public," Panetta told NBC News. "Obviously, I've seen those photographs. We've analyzed them. And there's no question that it's bin Laden." The photos are also "gruesome," said White House spokesman Jay Carney, one of the reasons some administration officials -- presumably including Obama -- objected to their release. Said Carney: There are sensitivities here in terms of the appropriateness of releasing photographs of Osama bin Laden in the aftermath of this firefight, and we're making an evaluation about the need to do that because of the sensitivities involved. And we review this information and make this decision with the same calculation as we do so many things, which is what we're trying to accomplish and does it serve or in any way harm our interests. And that is not just domestic, but globally. The debate over whether to release the photos also played out across the country, as reported by our colleagues at the <http://www.freep.com/article/20110504/NEWS07/105040380/Releasing-bin-Laden- body-photos-tough-call?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE> Detroit Free Press: National security law experts had mixed opinions, expressing many of the same concerns as the Obama administration. "I would advise against releasing the photos," said John Radsan, a national security law expert, former assistant general counsel for the CIA and now a professor at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minn. "It will be seen as disrespectful or intended to humiliate by some audiences, and I doubt that it will satisfy the skeptics," said Radsan, a former Detroiter whose parents were born in Iran. "We are a visual society, and people want visual confirmation. But, at times, we have to take the word of our government, our military and our intelligence agencies." But Imad Hamad, regional director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in Dearborn, said he has no problem if the government releases the photo. "I'm fine either way," he said. "I can understand the logic that says we want to see the body ... but it could also spark more violence." Troy attorney Shereef Akeel, an Egyptian American and Muslim, said: "It would have been more gratifying if the man had been hauled in alive to face justice." [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [email protected]. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [email protected] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. 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