Well I guess it is business as usual under th new adm. sad to see this going the way of the old adm.I feel we the people are paying for this horrific war and have a right to see the good bad and the ugly! OR ?

Gates Blocks Photographs of Prisoners

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has blocked the release of more photographs of foreign detainees abused by their American captors, saying their release would endanger American soldiers.

The Obama administration filed a brief with the Supreme Court late Friday saying Mr. Gates had invoked new powers blocking the release.

The American Civil Liberties Union had sued for the release of 21 color photographs showing prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq being abused by Americans. Federal courts had rejected the government’s arguments to block their release, so Congress gave Mr. Gates new powers to keep them private under a law signed last month by President Obama.

Mr. Gates’s order specifically cites the 21 photos sought by the A.C.L.U., and 23 additional ones cited in a ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Bryan Whitman, a spokesman for the Pentagon, said, however, that the order covered all photographs from investigations related to the treatment of people captured or detained in military operations outside the United States from Sept. 11, 2001, to Jan. 22, 2009.

Mr. Gates’s new powers were included in a budget bill for the Homeland Security Department.