Monday, August 26, 2013

What is Obama Hiding??

Judicial Watch Asks Supreme Court to Review JW 

Lawsuit Over bin Laden Death Images

As I said in this space when we began the battle to obtain photos and videos of the raid that led to bin Laden’s capture and killing, we would not stop until we exhausted every single legal remedy available to us.  Last stop:  the United States Supreme Court.

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This week we filed a certiorari petition with the Supreme Court of the United States to review a 2013 appellate ruling preventing the American people from accessing these images. We are trying to force the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to release more than 50 photographs and video recordings of Osama bin Laden taken during and after the U.S. raid upon the terrorist leader’s compound in Pakistan on May 1, 2011.

But before we get to Judicial Watch’s High Court petition and arguments, I want to address the question of “why” these records are so vital and why it is so important that JW emerge victorious in this effort.

If the lower court ruling is allowed to stand, terrorists would be allowed to dictate our laws. After all, it was Barack Obama himself who gave the justification for keeping this information secret, claiming it would be unwise to “spike the football” over bin Laden’s killing as it might be offensive to al Qaeda and its allies.

But there is no provision of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that allows documents to be kept secret because their release might offend our terrorist enemies. And we certainly do not want to start that precedent! Therefore, at stake in our battle to obtain these images is the fundamental right of the American people to access government information.
I’ll say it again here – as we’ve said in court:  We’re not after any information that has any relevance to national security. We just want to complete the public record on one of the most significant victories in United States military history.


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