Cuba Will Not Return Assata Shakur to US

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15. This was the first Obama did the bothered me

The administration also has found a way to avoid distribution of the photographs just before Obama travels to Egypt to speak directly to Muslims. Government lawyers had promised a federal judge to turn over the photos by May 28, a week before the president's trip.On Wednesday, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said the president will try to block the court-ordered release of hundreds of photos showing US troops abusing prisoners; he reversed his position after military commanders warned that the images could stoke anti-American sentiment and endanger soldiers.

The same arguments were made last month against releasing so-called torture memos, Bush-era documents outlining often-harsh methods CIA agents could use when interrogating terror suspects. Obama released the memos anyway.

The pictures, said to show mistreatment of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan, are the subject of a federal Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, an advocacy group. The government recently had agreed to release 44 photographs and said in court papers it was “processing for release a substantial number of other images,” for a total expected to be in the hundreds.

Gibbs said the president wants administration lawyers to challenge the photos' release based on national security. He said that argument was not used before.

“The president does not believe that the strongest case regarding the release of these photos was presented to the court,” he said.

The former Bush administration already argued against the release on national security grounds and lost. ACLU lawyer Jameel Jaffer said that argument “has been made by the government multiple times, and has been rejected unequivocally every time.”In September 2008, a three-judge federal appeals panel in New York wrote “It is plainly insufficient to claim that releasing documents could reasonably be expected to endanger some unspecified member of a group so vast as to encompass all United States troops, coalition forces, and civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan.”

http://www.dawn.com/news/818553/obama-revives-old-arguments-on-torture-photos

2014 he still uses the argument. Tensions are already inflamed, give up on that shit. Doing it in the first place inflames the tensions, but it is the release of it that inflames. I wonder what the things are we don't know.

It started out so promising too
Obama said of the Freedom of Information Act in a January 21 memo, “The government should not keep information confidential merely because public officials might be embarrassed by disclosure, because errors and failures might be revealed, or because of speculative or abstract fears.”