[Streck-Fu]

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....

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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.”