Tuesday, January 14, 2014

U.S. Supreme Court Refuses To Order The Release Of Osama Bin Laden’s Corpse And Burial At Sea Photos

U.S. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with members of the national security team, receive an update on Operation Neptune's Spear, a mission against Osama bin Laden, in one of the conference rooms of the Situation Room of the White House, May 1, 2011. They are watching live feed from drones operating over the bin Laden complex. Wikipedia

Bin Laden Photos Won’t Be Released as Court Spurns Appeal -- Bloomberg

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to order the release of photos of Osama bin Laden’s corpse and burial at sea, leaving intact the CIA’s classification of those images as top-secret.

The justices today turned away an appeal by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group that filed a Freedom of Information Act suit seeking release of the 2011 photos. A lower court ruled that the classification of the images was proper.

The Obama administration and Central Intelligence Agency said release of the photos would damage national security by inflaming tensions overseas and leading to retaliatory attacks against Americans.

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My Comment: I guess we will have to wait a few decades (or for a leak) before these 52 photos of a dead Osama Bin Laden are released to the public.

1 comment:

Intelligence.Architecture.Infrastructure said...


Why 52... like a deck of cards?
What about and Who are the 'Jokers,' then?