A Picture Perfect Double Standard
Posted May 6th, 2009 at 3.25pm in American Leadership, Protect America, Rule of Law.
ABC News, May 5, 2009:
The White House is keeping a tight grip on photos from last week’s botched Air Force One promotional photo op over Lower Manhattan.
At a press briefing Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs dodged reporters’ questions about last week’s photo-op, which cost over $328,000 in taxpayer dollars and frightened a broad swath of lower Manhattan, site of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center towers.
Chicago Tribune, April 24, 2009:
The Obama administration agreed late Thursday to release dozens of photographs depicting alleged abuse by U.S. personnel during the Bush administration of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan.
At least 44 pictures will be released by May 28, making public for the first time images of what the military investigated at facilities other than the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

May 6, 2009 MAS1916 - Denver, CO writes:
Nice Catch on this!!
This is a terrible double standard. Not releasing the Air Force One photos is arrogant. Taxpayers paid for them!
Releasing the other photos will only enrage opposition to the United States and further endager our troops and citizens is a horrible decision. It will not impact our enemies view of the US as a ‘bully.’
This will only extend the war on terror.