Greenwald: Obama Administration Tries to Ensure Suppression of Detainee Abuse Photos
Yesterday, Joe Lieberman quietly added an amendment to the Homeland Security appropriations bill, with the tacit approval of the White House, that serves to “‘legalize suppression’ of evidence of American war crimes” by blocking the release of abuse photos:
“…our torture regime was systematic, pervasive, brutal, fatal, and — becuase it was the by-product of conscious policies set at the highest levels of government — common across America’s “War on Terror” detention regime. These photographs would have documented those vital facts; combated the false denials from torture apologists; fueled the momentum for accountability; and revealed, in graphic and unavoidable terms, what was truly done by America’s government. But a Democratic-led Congress, at the urging of a Democratic President, are now taking extraordinary steps — including an act of Congress which has no purpose other than to suppress evidence of America’s war crimes — to ensure that this evidence never sees the light of day.”