CIA, Pentagon fight to keep Osama bin Laden death photos secret

Josh Gerstein
Politico
September 27, 2011

Photos and videos of Al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden after he was killed in May in a U.S. military/Central Intelligence Agency raid in Pakistan should not be released publicly because they would reveal military and intelligence secrets and could lead to violence against U.S. personnel, the Obama administration argued in papers filed in federal court in Washington late Monday night.

The new filings from the Justice Department provide scant details about the imagery, but CIA National Clandestine Service Director John Bennett wrote that the CIA has “52 unique….photographs and/or videorecordings” depicting bin Laden during or after the May operation. Bennett did not break down the tally further, but said all the imagery is classified “TOP SECRET,” meaning that disclosure of the material could lead to “exceptionally grave damage” to U.S. national security.

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8 Responses to “CIA, Pentagon fight to keep Osama bin Laden death photos secret”

  1. So this is what American’s want? Things that our government (under direction of CIA) have been so horrible, so devastating, that it’s an “issue of national security”? Thank you. Thank you for putting all of us in danger for your stupid wars of “mass profit”.

  2. Yes LIES hv to be secret.

  3. I am sure the photo would be worse the Michael Jackson photo. The freeze they had him in, would have lost power at some point, making for a horrible photo op.

  4. I CALL B.S.!!! IT’S TOP SECRET TO PROTECT THE GOVERNMENTS LYING ASSES.

    • i bet they have a mini-Smithsonian at Area 51 containing all the black ops props from 1776 to the present, everything from the famous smallpox blanket to the Seal Team 6 kills OBL video.

  5. Are they afraid of releasing the photos because they would reveal troops pissing on him or what? What kind of COWARDS would they have to be to rellease the photos for FEAR that it would endanger them… unless it’s obviously not OBL, and an innocent pakistani like his neighbor stated?

  6. Protect secrets like, ITS a damn LIE, to begin with… pathetic losers !!!!!!

  7. Wouldn’t stop the bs if they did release them since it was reported many years ago the technology exists to create perfect pictures/videos that can’t be detected as fakes.

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