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Defend America on Monday, November 30, 2009 8:00:35 PM
Supreme Court rules to keep detainee abuse photos secret
By Michael Doyle, McClatchy Newspapers Michael Doyle, Mcclatchy Newspapers
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Mon Nov 30, 12:58 pm ET
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court
did all it could Monday to lock up forever some incendiary photos that
show U.S. soldiers abusing foreign prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan .
Yielding to Congress and the White House
, justices took the expected but formal step of reversing a lower
court's order that the pictures be released. Using its budget powers,
Congress already had moved to keep the photos secret.
In a brief, unsigned decision issued Monday without elaboration, the court cited a provision in a Homeland Security funding bill that President Barack Obama signed Oct. 28 . The provision permitted the Pentagon to block the public release of the pictures in question, as well as others deemed to "endanger" U.S. soldiers or civilians.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20091130/pl_mcclatchy/3367538