In the case related to the secrecy of 2,100 photos of prisoner abuse by US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon flat out ignored the judge’s order to provide legal justifications on a case-by-case basis for the decade-old lawsuit.
Instead, the Pentagon is insisting that ISIS could conceivably use the photos to “incite” against the US, and that the photos “could be used to increase anti-American sentiment.”
The judge hasn’t responded to the filing, but since the Pentagon did the exact opposite of what he ordered them to do, providing a blanket excuse instead of individualized justifications, it’s hard to imagine he’ll react positively.
The ACLU has sought the release of the photos since 2004, and has been resisted by Presidents Bush and Obama. Congress made a law supporting their secrecy in 2009, but Judge Hellerstein said it couldn’t be used on such a large scale.
If I were evil…I'd probably fund a coven to oppose me just for the purpose of excusing my lack of transparency and unwillingness to punish my lie-gathering henchmen.
(Additionally my ventilation ducts will be too small to crawl through, and my pet monster will be kept in a secure cage from which it cannot escape and into which I could not accidentally stumble. )
The civil wars in Syria and Iraq resemble the trench warfare of WW1: town taken by group A, town lost to group B, town retaken by group A, ad infinitum.
Do stupid evil stuff, and then try to cover up any signs of it. A sure sign of evil cowards.
But The Interview incites violence against someone else, so that’s fine.
The policy incites the violence. The photos are just more evidence. If they want to stop inciting violence then they should change the policy.
The military knows how dangerous those photos are. They saw what happened with the Abu Ghraib photos when Soldiers Grainor and England went to prison for just humiliating and mocking prisoners.That's also why Jose Rodriguez of the CIA had all the torture tapes destroyed because they knew that if they became public, there would be demands for prosecution. They are lying through their teeth about Islamic jihadists using them as recruiting tools. The information already out there clearly shows that US Army and CIA officers murdered dozens of prisoners in the enthusiastic torture sessions. One CIA Contractor rent-a-cop would do six years in prison for freezing to death a prisoner who was found hanging from the ceiling shackles. The CIA was also frantic to find and purge the internal "Panetta Review" which also concluded that the torture program didn't get any real important information and that the CIA lied through their teeth to Congress about the effectiveness of the torture.
Call in the Generals and place them in a Prison cell, its contempt of court and they hold the keys in their hands, the photographs!