House Democrats dropping photo provision from war funding bill

[Lone_Star_Dem]

Source: CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- House Democratic leaders plan to drop a provision -- backed by President Obama -- from the $100 billion war funding bill that would bar the release of detainee photos, according to House Democratic congressional aides.

The language, added as an amendment to the bill by Sens. Joe Lieberman, D-Connecticut, and Lindsay Graham, R-South Carolina, would make requests to the Defense Department for the detainee photos exempt from the Freedom of Information Act.

A Democratic aide told CNN that the decision to drop the language would not interfere with the administration's request to ban the release of the photos because the U.S. Supreme Court is still expected to review the legal challenge filed by the Department of Justice arguing against their release. In the meantime, the photos are not being released.

In May, Obama ordered government attorneys to object to the court-ordered release of photos depicting the mistreatment of prisoners, reversing an earlier White House decision.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/09/war.funding.bill.photos/index.html

[JustinL]

1. excellent - that provision was outrageous

Glad to see members of the House joining Senators Feingold and Sanders in standing up for transparency and the separation of powers.

[Javaman]

2. "backed by President Obama"

interesting.

[flyboyscotty68]

3. they are all full of it

They are all full of it , if they think we are not going to demand these photos be released. If crimes are depicted then we will prosecute them. Thats the way it is supposed to work. What those photos must show though, it must be something really, really bad. They need to release them and face the consequences. It's called taking responsibility AND accountability. They always forget the second part.