Successful Dissemination of Information

The Sydney Morning Herald, in Australia, has just published 15 photographs which may be among the 60 whose release the Obama administration blocking and which the ACLU is litigating in order to have shown to the public. They recieved the images earlier.

You can see the images here:

i am looking at these and thinking of the 1,000 some prisoners in bagram.

Saturday, 16 May 2009 07:02


By Dennis Loo

Pictured with this article are two of the sixty photographs given to the Australian press previously that the Sydney Morning Herald is publishing now. They may be among the photographs that Obama is now refusing to release.

Notice that the man in the first photo is packed in ice because, presumably, he is dead. Behind his head appears to be part of the body bag.
These photos are part of the real ticking time bomb that Obama wants to avoid setting off in the realm of American and world public opinion.

As Mike Malloy put it at Huffington Post:

“If we are to believe reports that began circulating four years ago, reports from investigative journalists such as Seymour Hersh, their release would unleash a wave of anti-American hatred that would endanger the lives of not just U.S. soldiers, but the lives of all Americans, civilians as well as military personnel. Hersh, who helped uncover the scandal, said in a speech before an ACLU convention: ‘Some of the worse that happened that you don’t know about, ok? Videos, there are women there. Some of you may have read they were passing letters, communications out to their men … . The women were passing messages saying “Please come and kill me, because of what’s happened. Basically what happened is that those women who were arrested with young boys/children in cases that have been recorded. The boys were sodomized with the cameras rolling. The worst about all of them is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking that your government has. They [the Bush Crime Family] are in total terror it’s going to come out.’

“At today’s White House press briefing, press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters that the president was concerned that the photos’ release would pose a national security threat. In other words, these unreleased photos and videos show acts of degeneracy so vile there is no way they can be explained or rationalized. They contain images of children - some of them the children of detainees - being raped and sodomized as a means of forcing confessions from the adult detainees that would provide the links between Saddam Hussein and al-Quaeda that Dick Cheney and George W. Bush insisted were the basis of their orders to invade and occupy Iraq. Children of detainees being raped and sodomized as a means of obtaining confessions. In testimony before Congress five years ago no less a war criminal than the murderous former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the unrevealed photos and videos contain acts ‘that can only be described as blatantly sadistic, cruel and inhuman.’”

Fundamentalist Christians such as Gary Bauer, President of American Values (sic) and Chairman of the Working Campaign, former president of the Family Research Council and presidential candidate in 2000, who, in posing the question: "What is a follower of Jesus permitted to do?" answered with this, "[I]t depends... I think if we believe the person we have can give us information to stop thousands of Americans from being killed, it would be morally suspect to not use harsh tactics to get that information."