Especially now that it has been proven that this was the result of the Bush Torture Policy, that this was part of an overall program of torture approved at the highest levels....and not the work "a few bad apples." Or as Limbaugh put it, "blowing off steam."
NEW YORK - March 17 - A federal court rejected a Bush administration request to reconsider a decision that ordered the Department of Defense to release photographs depicting the abuse of detainees by U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejected the government's request to have the full appeals court rehear a decision from last September ordering the release of the photos as part of an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit seeking information on the abuse of prisoners held in U.S. custody overseas.
The Obama administration, which has not taken a position on the litigation, has 90 days to appeal to the Supreme Court if it chooses to challenge the September order.
"This decision is a stinging rejection of the Bush administration's attempt to keep the public in the dark about the widespread abuse of prisoners held in U.S. custody abroad," said ACLU staff attorney Amrit Singh, who argued the case before the court. "These photographs demonstrate that prison abuse was not aberrational and not confined to Abu Ghraib. Release of the photographs would send a powerful message that the new administration intends to make a clean break from the unaccountability of the Bush years."
Another test of the Obama Administration.
If they appeal to block the release, they are morally, if not legally, suppressing evidence of torture from being made public.
Mr. Holder?
Update: It also makes it worth referring to this essay again and reposting the video...
Reform Immigration -
March on Washington
