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Cnn: Pentagon illegally destroyed photos of dead osama bin laden

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Video @: CNN: PENTAGON ILLEGALLY DESTROYED PHOTOS OF DEAD OSAMA BIN LADEN - YouTube

Admiral McGraven, "All Photos should be turned over to the CIA, and all should be destroyed". Is this a violation of the law? This does seem ridiculous? Why destroy them? This is not the way the law should be. How many rules were broken with this?
We need to pressure the intelligence community and the Pentagon with this.
 

The Pentagon is the civilian part of our military. There is only one person above the Secretary of Defense in the Chain of Command, the Commander in Chief aka POTUS.

What is Obama hiding ?
 
APACHERAT said:
The Pentagon is the civilian part of our military. There is only one person above the Secretary of Defense in the Chain of Command, the Commander in Chief aka POTUS.

What is Obama hiding ?
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As I see jumping to the "Obama is responsible" card just as about everything you post. I guess you dont know how a bureaucracy works.
I would ask for any proof for what you claim but i know as always no one will get any proof at all.
But then again im guessing you didnt watch the video...
 

From day one the media and many Americans wanted the photos of OBL released.

This is breaking news.

Well Judicial Watch comes through again.


Uncovered by JW: Top Pentagon Leader Ordered Destruction of bin Laden Death Photos

Judicial Watch Uncovers Email Revealing Top Pentagon Leader Ordered Destruction of bin Laden Death Photos

(Washington, DC) – >" Judicial Watch announced today that on January 31, 2014, it received documents from the Department of Defense (Pentagon) revealing that within hours of its filing a May 13, 2011, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit seeking photos of the deceased Osama bin Laden, U.S. Special Operations Commander, Admiral William McRaven ordered his subordinates to “destroy” any photos they may have had “immediately.” Judicial Watch had filed a FOIA request for the photos 11 days earlier.

The McRaven email, addressed to “Gentlemen,” instructs:

One particular item that I want to emphasize is photos; particularly UBLs remains. At this point – all photos should have been turned over to the CIA; if you still have them destroy them immediately or get them to the [redacted].

According to the Pentagon documents, McRaven sent his email on “Friday, May 13, 2011 5:09 PM.” The documents do not detail what documents, if any, were destroyed in response to the McRaven directive. The Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit seeking the documents was filed in the United States Court for the District of Columbia only hours earlier. Judicial Watch also announced the filing at a morning press conference.

On May 2, Judicial Watch had filed a FOIA request with the Defense Department seeking “all photographs and/or video recordings of Usama (Osama) Bin Laden taken during and/or after the U.S. military operation in Pakistan on or about May 1, 2011.” Federal law contains broad prohibitions against the “concealment, removal, or mutilation generally” of government records.

The records containing the McRaven “destroy them immediately” email were produced as a result of a June 7, 2013, FOIA request and a subsequent lawsuit against the Defense Department for records relating to reports of the 2011 McRaven purge directive. McRaven’s order was first mentioned at the end of a 2011 draft reportby the Pentagon’s inspector general (IG) examining whether the Obama administration gave special access to Hollywood executives planning the film “Zero Dark Thirty.” According the draft report, “ADM McRaven also directed that the names and photographs associated with the raid not be released. This effort included purging the combatant command’s system of all records related to the operation and providing these records to another Government Agency.” The reference to the document purge did not appear in the final IG report.

The move by McRaven to purge the photos appears to have come, at least in part, in response to aggressive efforts by Judicial Watch to obtain images of the deceased bin Laden that President Obama, in a rewrite of federal open records law, had refused to disclose. In addition to its May 2, 2011, FOIA request with the Pentagon Judicial Watch filed an identical request on May 3, 2011, with the CIA. When neither the Defense Department nor the CIA complied with the FOIA requests, Judicial Watch, in June 2011, filed FOIA lawsuits against both agencies. In the course of the litigation, the Pentagon claimed that it had “no records responsive to plaintiff’s request.” ..."<

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Order: ‘Destroy’ bin Laden photos

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A senior operations officer in the U.S. military ordered for photos of Osama bin Laden’s corpse to be destroyed 11 days after he was killed, an email released Monday by a conservative legal group shows.

Judicial Watch released the document Monday after obtaining it through a Freedom of Information Act request.

On May 2, 2011, the American Navy Seal team shot and killed bin Laden at a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Judicial Watch quickly filed a FOIA request with the Pentagon and the CIA seeking photos of bin Laden’s body, which have never been released. The Associated Press says it had also filed a request with the Pentagon asking for the photos."<

Read more: Order:

U.S. Military Leaders Tight-Lipped On Destruction Of Osama Bin Laden Death Pics
Pentagon leaders are keeping quiet on why the head of U.S. special forces ordered pictures of deceased al-Qaeda chieftain Osama bin Laden destroyed.
U.S. Military Leaders Tight-Lipped On Destruction Of Osama Bin Laden Death Pics
 
>“The McRaven ‘destroy them immediately’ email is a smoking gun, revealing both contempt for the rule of law and the American’s people right to know,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The Obama administration has tried to cover this scandal up – and our lawsuit exposed it. We demand further investigation of the effort to destroy documents about the bin Laden raid.”<
 

I seriously doubt they killed him. Everything possible was done after to prevent any possible verification.
 
APACHERAT said:
The Pentagon is the civilian part of our military. There is only one person above the Secretary of Defense in the Chain of Command, the Commander in Chief aka POTUS.

What is Obama hiding ?
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The Pentagon is largely run by military personnel. Admiral McRaven was the one who supposedly ordered the photos destroyed. I'm sure you know that admiral is a military title.

I have no idea why they were destroyed. I'd rather they weren't. But like clockwork, you turn this into a civilian vs. military issue and make it All About Obama.
 
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joko104 said:
I seriously doubt they killed him. Everything possible was done after to prevent any possible verification.
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If Osama bin Laden wasn't killed, where is he now?
 

So the body was dumped at sea, all the photo evidence is destroyed, the SEAL Team that conducted the raid died soon after in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan. So no evidence now exists that the attack actually happened.

I'm not a conspiracy nut, but that is a rather alarming series of coincidences that essentially erased all evidence of the mission from the history books.
 
shrubnose said:
If Osama bin Laden wasn't killed, where is he now?
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Well, he wasn't a healthy man. He could just as easily have died from natural causes.
 

Obama is the CIC. I know you'll stop at nothing to cover his ass, but you have to stop avoiding reality.

Maybe CNN is creating a feint to suggest that the mission actually took place. So far, there's no physical evidence to prove that it did.
 
shrubnose said:
Right, but that doesn't answer the question-where is he now?
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Dead? I'm saying you could make up a story that bin Laden died of natural causes and our government staged an elaborate raid on a random compound in order to claim credit for bin Laden's death and the existing evidence would back it up.
 
jmotivator said:
Dead? I'm saying you could make up a story that bin Laden died of natural causes and our government staged an elaborate raid on a random compound in order to claim credit for bin Laden's death and the existing evidence would back it up.
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The conspiracy loons are starting to salivate and fervently thumb their tin foil hats.
 
Who gives a flying F##k?
 
Ockham said:
The conspiracy loons are starting to salivate and fervently thumb their tin foil hats.
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Indeed. And it pisses me off that the government screwed this up so badly that they couldn't even provide evidence to counter it even if they wanted to.

Granted, there will always be the hardline kooks that believe there was no moon landing for whom evidence is never a concern, but to have something like this where all evidence was destroyed just makes it all the easier. I mean, what are we left with? The word of this administration?
 
Ockham said:
The conspiracy loons are starting to salivate and fervently thumb their tin foil hats.
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Yeah, but do you ever ask yourself: why was every piece of evidence of the raid and UBL's death destroyed? Why isn't there a single crew member of the Carl Vincent that witnessed the burial at sea?
 
apdst said:
Yeah, but do you ever ask yourself: why was every piece of evidence of the raid and UBL's death destroyed? Why isn't there a single crew member of the Carl Vincent that witnessed the burial at sea?
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I'm hoping it's so that the terrorists wouldn't have anything left to use as a memorial or use in some way. In this instance I think it's good we were secretive. I don't deny that some movie depicting OBL still alive and being questioned in an underground bunker may make a good premise to build off of... but I'm hoping that still is the stuff of struggling hollywood writers.
 
APACHERAT said:
The Pentagon is the civilian part of our military. There is only one person above the Secretary of Defense in the Chain of Command, the Commander in Chief aka POTUS.

What is Obama hiding ?
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Probably that OBL likely died of kidney failure before the "war on terror" was ramped up.
 

I think that's a weak excuse.
 
shrubnose said:
If Osama bin Laden wasn't killed, where is he now?
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Oh, he's still very dead!!

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistan's president says he thinks Osama bin Laden is most likely dead because the suspected terrorist has been unable to get treatment for his kidney disease.

Musharraf said Pakistan knew bin Laden took two dialysis machines into Afghanistan. "One was specifically for his own personal use," he said.

This is from a 2002 interview.

http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/south/01/18/gen.musharraf.binladen/
 
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