The new TORTURE PHOTOS are released on the internet...doncha know?

note: CLICK BLOGPOST TITLE ABOVE to see what photos OBAMA flip flopped on...while being extorted.



http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11923.htm


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http://www.pubrecord.org/torture/906-exclusive-detailed-descriptions-of-prisoner-abuse-photos-obama-is-withholding.html


EXCLUSIVE: Documents Describe Prisoner Abuse Photos Obama is Withholding

Written by Jason Leopold

Friday, 15 May 2009 06:46

By Jason Leopold



U.S. Army soldiers in Afghanistan took dozens of pictures of their colleagues pointing assault rifles and pistols at the heads and backs of hooded and bound detainees and another photograph showed two male soldiers and one female soldier pointing a broom to one detainee “as if I was sticking the end of a broom stick into [his] rectum,” according to the female soldier’s account as told to an Army criminal investigator.


I found the documents that describes many of the photographs that were set for release at the end of the month on the website of the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU has been trying to gain access to the photographs for nearly six years. The ACLU obtained the files describing the pictures in 2005 as part of the organization’s wide-ranging Freedom of information Act lawsuit against the Bush administration seeking documents related to the treatment of “war on terror” prisoners in U.S. custody........


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http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20090515.html



The Politics of Excusing Torture In The Name of National Security

By JOHN W. DEAN

Friday, May 15, 2009



Allow me to share some analysis about the way things work in Washington.

President Obama's flip-flop on his agreement to turn over photographs of detainees being tortured by American soldiers is a message with broad and clear implications.

Those who believe that the Obama Administration should expose and prosecute persons who committed war crimes should understand that it is not going to happen the way they would like, or as quickly, because Obama is having internal battles as well. His pullback is not occurring because he fears that Republicans will attack him (he knows they will); rather it is occurring because he needs the national security community behind him, and they fear they will be further embarrassed and humiliated if more information is revealed.

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TOMMY:


BARACK OBAMA IS THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

HE IS THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF.

HE DECIDES EVERYTHING.

I SERVE, like anybody, at THE DESCRETION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

IF THE INTEL COMMUNITY has something to fear...then...uh...WE BETTER TAKE A LOOK AT THAT FACTUAL FEAR, TO SEE IF IT IS ENOUGH FOR BARACK TO EXTORT THE EXTORTIONIST WHO DESTROYED OUR COUNTRY, ECONOMY, DOLLAR, WORKING CLASS, SOLDIERS, WHITE COLLAR PROFESSIONALS.

FRANKLY, the POWER ELITE CONTROL GROUP who run the US INTEL COMMUNITY, have a lot of pain, fear, and indictments coming down their fat heads.

It is our country, and this is a country of laws.

CHRISTINA MOORE was murdered by contractors using NSA SIGINT FROM 902ND COUNTERINTELIGENCE GROUP...FBI, JOHNNY SUTTON, JOHN BRADLEY, RRPD...all stood down?

Ain't gonna happen.

Keep going Barack, soon...you will pick your cabinet and "CLINTON-MUELLER-PANETTA-NAPOLITANO-HOLDER-RAHM" will be fired.

Power control group...out...mercs go to jail, or they flip all the way to DARTH CHENEY'S DEATH STAR.

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According to The Washington Post, President Obama told White House lawyers he does not "feel comfortable" releasing the photos because of the reaction they could cause against U.S. troops, and because "he believes that the national security implications of such a release have not been fully presented to the court," in responding to the ACLU's Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. [Emphasis added.]

Even before looking closely at Obama's change of mind, I understood immediately what had taken place, as soon as I heard the report on the radio. President Obama was, in fact, speaking for the national security bureaucracy in announcing his change of mind. I knew it would happen at some point. Although his first instinct had been to release the pictures, as he had released the new Justice Department torture memos, it was clear he had been turned around, and I was certain it was the work of the national security bureaucracy.

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tommy:



Mr Dean...it's called EXTORTION...EXTORTING THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IS A PRIME FACIE CASE FOR TREASON, CONSPIRACY, OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE, MISPRISION OF TREASON.

END OF SPIN.

NO OTHER FACTS NEED TO BE CONSIDERED.

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My hunch was confirmed by the AP report, which explained, "American commanders in the war zones expressed deep concern about fresh damage the photos might do, especially as the U.S. tries to wind down the Iraq war and step up operations against the Taliban and al-Qaida in Afghanistan." How do the commanders know this to be the case?

How do they know that it is the not the case that, to the contrary, more people around the world might admire us for openly correcting past mistakes?

In fact, you can be certain "the commanders" do not truly know that the photos will harm America's image, but they do know how to protect the national security bureaucracy, after having risen to its top ranks. This is exactly what is going on here, and the explanation was pure bureaucratic excuse-making.



The National Security Bureaucracy


On average, it takes about 100 days for the great Executive Branch bureaucracy to begin to work its way and will on the new officials, and that threshold has now been crossed. If anyone believes a rookie president and his new team can take over the executive branch, and actually run it without the cooperation of the permanent people, those who remain in place as presidents and their appointees come and go, he or she does not understand how Washington really works.

Political appointees come and go, but the folks who actually run the government have an ongoing agenda of trying not to let these part-time political people screw it up too badly. Nowhere are there more of these permanent career professionals than in the departments and agencies that constitute the national security community.


Few presidents have true national security experience before arriving at the White House. For example, of the last twelve presidents – Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II and Obama – only Eisenhower, Nixon, and Poppy Bush truly understood national security operations when they arrived in the Oval Office.

President Obama, like all the others, is getting on-the-job training. Who is doing that training?

While his appointees with national security experience are playing a role, they themselves were all trained by the national security bureaucracy, and since the Democrats have been out of power for eight years, Obama's national security team is still relying heavily on the career people. It takes about 18 to 24 months for a new presidential team to get control of the national security behemoth. ...



... In addition, virtually every Cabinet department has national security responsibilities -- from the Department of Commerce to the Department of the Treasury to the Department of Justice, with its Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). And, of course, there are the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) – all are involved in national security.

In fact, since the passage of the National Security Act of 1947, the president has had a National Security Council, which fills much of the Executive Office Building beside the White House, and sits atop this huge apparatus with its reach throughout the federal structure, and the entire world. Suffice it to say that the national security bureaucracy is massive. David Halberstam, in his classic chronicle of the Kennedy era's national security establishment, The Best and the Brightest, viewed it as a great and powerful elephant, which meant that it is not easily troubled by others in the government jungle. Were David with us today, he might describe this Goliath as being very angry, which is a problem for President Obama. But he would also explain that the influence of the bureaucrats ebbs and flows.



Anger in the National Security Ranks, Stemming from the Bush Years



From generals and admirals at the Pentagon to Foreign Service officers in Foggy Bottom, along with untold thousands of the nameless and unknown career civil servants who soldier on to protect our national security, there is anger and resentment. Most of these people are not political in the partisan sense; rather, they work in and for our government to keep the nation safe, and take pride in their work.

For the past eight years, the Bush Administration has marginalized them, manipulated them, and beaten them down. Dick Cheney, in particular, worked to keep the national security professionals submissive, and to ignore their good advice. In a move that was unheard of for a Vice President, Cheney created his own National Security Council, which initially was better staffed and more knowledgeable than the statutory NSC.

Cheney placed personal emissaries throughout the national security structure, not only to control it but to be certain that he was always aware of what it was doing, so he could operate accordingly. Dick Cheney had his own agenda, and it proved a disaster. Cheney cost the nation blood and treasure with his preemptive Iraq war. He embarrassed the United States the world over by demanding (and continuing to demand) that we use torture.

Our national security professionals have been humiliated. President Obama is a president who listens, and he has been told that airing the dirty linen that the Bush folks left behind will cause more harm than good. No doubt his top national security advisers – all products of the national security bureaucracy – started giving him serious heads-up talks when it appeared he was going to win the election, for that is when he began saying that he was more interested in looking forward than looking back, and that to investigate torture would only be looking back.

When President Obama hinted that he might prosecute those engaged in torture, he was forced to run out to the CIA for a stroking session to placate these national security professionals, assuring them that he was not going to prosecute any of them for following orders of the Bush/Cheney White House. The national security bureaucracy is testing its influence with the new president – and like all presidents, he will take some of its advice and reject other advice it gives. Right now, he is trying to figure out what to do.

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TOMMY: MR OBAMA, do what I tell you to do:


----APPOINT SPECIAL PROSECUTOR TO TALK TO ME.

----ARGUE FACTS, not obtuse spin and hollow mantras in which ENHANCED INTERROGATION METHODS is used to cover up COINTELPRO NEUTRALIZATIONS OF THOSE WHO ACTUALLY SIGNED US DOJ OIG--FBI OPR COMPLAINTS, and actually sought to access the fed courts with a MOTION FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF to prevent more FBI SPONSORED HARASSMENT, STALKING, ASSAULTS, TERRORISM...all done to engage in INTERSTATE STALKING AND CONSPIRACY TO TAMPER WITH A WITNESS WHO TRIED TO TIP SFPD ON THE DETENATORS USED IN FBI'S FALSE FLAG ATTACK AT OK CITY....it's all about FALSE FLAG, and SHOCK DOCTRINE MONEY GRUBBING PUNKS stealing our nation's life, money, joy.
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Obama's Being Tested From the Inside And Outside


It is not likely that Barack Obama had widespread political support in the national security community, which would have had a natural affinity for one of their own like John McCain. But Obama needs to win their hearts and minds. He cannot effectively lead and protect the country without their support, and since so many are recovering from battered-by-the-White-House syndrome stemming from the Bush/Cheney years, he is dealing with their very bad mood. Rather than risk alienation, Obama has given in to them, at the expense of his natural constituency, the political progressives who find it appalling that the Bush/Cheney torture is not being fully exposed (and prosecuted) to prevent it from happening again -- and sooner, rather than later.

I would encourage those who are demanding exposure and prosecution to keep pounding their drums. Clearly, they are on the right side of this issue, and Obama knows it. While he is going to placate the national security bureaucrats from time to time in order to lead them effectively, hopefully the pressure for him to deal with the atrocious behavior of Bush and Cheney is only just getting started.

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tommy:


ONLY A HANDFUL OF LOWLIFE, SATAN WORSHIPPING, NAZI PUNKS are running us down, and extorting Obama.

I call them the BUSH--CLINTON--KIKE CRIME FAMILIES.

THAT'S what they are...doncha know?

Only a handful of these enemies of the state have embedded themselves in the national security state.

Those guys, are easy to find, and indict.

Flip your way to the top...it works all the time.

We got them, we got your back...and...they CANNOT WIN WITHOUT MURDER, TORTURE, AND SPIN.

They cannot win, if they get exposed...and they cannot explain LEO WANTA TRUST FUND, GOLD BARS, PATRIOT ACT MURDERS OF US CITIZENS...FALSE FLAG...FBI OPERATION SLAMMER MIND CONTROL...etc.

THE FACTS, SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES.

THEY CANNOT WIN OR LAST IF A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR STARTS CALLING WITNESSES.


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John W. Dean, a FindLaw columnist, is a former counsel to the president.

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http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/05/19/poll-democrats-and-repulicans-agree-on-photos/




May 19, 2009

Poll: Democrats and Repulicans agree on photos

Posted: 01:00 PM ET

From CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser




WASHINGTON (CNN) – It isn't often that Democrats and Republicans see eye to eye. But on the thorny question of whether photos of U.S. military personnel allegedly abusing Iraqi prisoners should be released, a new national poll suggests Democrats and Republicans appear to agree.

Nearly three out of four Americans questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Tuesday do not believe the U.S. government should release the photos.

The poll suggests that 87 percent of Republicans are against the public release of the photos, as are 62 percent of Democrats. Three out of four independent voters would also prefer for the photos to stay under wraps.

"Obama has been getting some pressure from the liberal wing of his party to release the photos, but six in ten liberals in the poll say that the photos should not be made publicly available," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.


Last week, President Obama reversed course on the issue. The White House now says it no longer supports the release of the photos, which allegedly show prisoners allegedly being abused by U.S. personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan.....