Streck-Fu
01-10-2013, 12:55
Court defers to US lawyers arguing that the release could put Americans at risk.
Uday and Qusay are embalmed posed and photographed teh next day but Bin Laden is a no go....
LINK (http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/court-looks-likely-to-defer-to-us-in-barring-release-of-postmortem-osama-bin-laden-photos/2013/01/10/5c521e6c-5b46-11e2-88d0-c4cf65c3ad15_story.html)
During oral arguments before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, at least two members of a three-judge panel seemed convinced by the government’s case.
“Why should we not defer to them?” asked Judge Merrick B. Garland. Intelligence officials, he said, “are telling us there is a risk that Americans and others will die if we release the documents.”
Michael Bekesha, an attorney for the group Judicial Watch, argued that the government should release a subset of 52 images related to bin Laden’s burial in the Arabian Sea in May 2011.
The government, he said in court documents, has not specifically shown how images of a “somber, dignified burial at sea could be expected to cause identifiable or describable exceptionally grave damage to national security.”
But Judge Judith W. Rogers pointed to the uniqueness of bin Laden — the founder of al-Qaeda and mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks – and noted the government’s argument that “almost anything associated with him is necessarily of concern.”
Uday and Qusay are embalmed posed and photographed teh next day but Bin Laden is a no go....
LINK (http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/court-looks-likely-to-defer-to-us-in-barring-release-of-postmortem-osama-bin-laden-photos/2013/01/10/5c521e6c-5b46-11e2-88d0-c4cf65c3ad15_story.html)
During oral arguments before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, at least two members of a three-judge panel seemed convinced by the government’s case.
“Why should we not defer to them?” asked Judge Merrick B. Garland. Intelligence officials, he said, “are telling us there is a risk that Americans and others will die if we release the documents.”
Michael Bekesha, an attorney for the group Judicial Watch, argued that the government should release a subset of 52 images related to bin Laden’s burial in the Arabian Sea in May 2011.
The government, he said in court documents, has not specifically shown how images of a “somber, dignified burial at sea could be expected to cause identifiable or describable exceptionally grave damage to national security.”
But Judge Judith W. Rogers pointed to the uniqueness of bin Laden — the founder of al-Qaeda and mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks – and noted the government’s argument that “almost anything associated with him is necessarily of concern.”