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« Real Irish rock and rap coming to a 'fleadh' | Main | How does Heineken Light compare with Amstel Light? » July 22, 2005ACLU: Defense Department Refuses to Turn Over Abu Ghraib Abuse Photographs; Asks to File Secret Brief Justifying RefusalUpdated 12:53 a.m. 07.23.05 Lawyers for the Defense Department are refusing to cooperate with a federal judge's order to release secret photographs and videotapes related to the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal.... Technorati blog search: Abu Ghraib ACLU I had blogged earlier today that July 22 was the court-ordered deadline for releasing 140 photos and four videos, part of the collection shown to a closed session of Congress in May 2004. But the silence was ominous -- no announcements about the time of the release, for instance, no advances from the Washington press -- and I wondered if it would really happen. It didn't. NEW YORK -- Today was the day the government was supposed to process and redact photographs and videos relating to the abuse and torture of prisoners held abroad. Raising new arguments on the eve of its deadline, the United States government refused to release the materials to the public. The photographs and videos were to be processed for eventual release as a result of a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and other organizations. "The government is raising newfound reasons for withholding records to which the public has an undeniable right," said Amrit Singh, a staff attorney with the ACLU. "Instead of releasing these records and holding officials accountable for detainee abuse, the government now seeks to shield itself from public scrutiny by filing these reasons in secret." In a letter filed at the eleventh hour, the Department of Defense claims that photographs and videos of abuse that the court had previously ordered redacted for future release "could result in harm to individuals" for reasons that will be set forth in a memorandum and three declarations that the government will file under seal with the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York. Under the government’s proposal, the documents explaining the government’s reasons for withholding the images of abuse will not be available to the public except in redacted form, and the photographs and videos may never be made public...
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