Drone Secrecy Is The Reason Why The Bin Laden Death Photos Will Not Be Released

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Administration Uses Drone Secrecy To Justify Concealment Of Bin Laden Photos -- Atlantic Wire

The Justice Department has a new legal argument for why the government should be allowed to conceal the postmortem photographs of Osama bin Laden: It's doing the same thing with the CIA's classified drone program.

On Wednesday, the department filed court papers [PDF] asking a federal judge to rule against the government watchdog group Judicial Watch, which is suing for the release of "all photographs and/or video recordings" taken of bin Laden during the May 1, 2011 raid in Abbottabad. The filing rehashes many of the government's stated reasons for concealing the photographs (inciting violence in the Muslim world, revealing classified "operational methods," etc) but also leans on the CIA's refusal to acknowledge its widely-publicized drone program.

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Update: DOJ Defends Keeping Bin Laden Death Photos Secret -- Blog: Legal Times

My Comment: Drones .... what drones? Hmmmm .... this argument is gong to wear thin after a while.