LGLS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Central Intelligence Agency, Osama Bin Laden, Judicial Watch
28 Oct 2018
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Americans and lead to anti-american propaganda: the legal issue is whether the post-mortem images of osama bin laden must be released pursuant to the foia. More specifically, the court is addressing whether the images constitute material that would fall under one of the exceptions provided by the. Foia: the court found that the images do fall within one of the exceptions provided by the. Hence it supports the u. s. dept. of defense in not releasing the death photos of bin laden. It is indisputable that the images pertain to intelligence activities including covert action or intelligence sources or methods and all images pertain to foreign activities of united states. And every image at issue documents events involving american military personnel thousands of miles outside of american territory: if i was the judge hearing this case, i too would"ve supported the cia in withholding the photos.
