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...PENTAGON to use social networks for recruiting, unaware that nobody likes being poked by the Defense Department...
...aren't we pursing this?" Obama asked his lawyers last week after listening to Gates' and Mullen's concerns, according to another top Pentagon official. "I don't think we're putting our best national-security argument forward in front of the courts." On Tuesday, Obama informed both Gates and Army General Ray Odierno, the top U.S. officer in Iraq, of his decision to withhold the photos. U.S. lawyers are expected to appeal the case to the Supreme Court. The ACLU was not pleased. "The Obama Administration's adoption of the stonewalling tactics and opaque policies of the Bush administration...
While President Obama's liberal allies are decrying his decision to refuse to release hundreds of additional detainee-abuse photographs, Pentagon officials - and nearly 200,000 troops in Afghanistan and Iraq - are breathing a little easier. Their argument that the photos could endanger soldiers by potentially inflaming anti-U.S. sentiment swayed the President, who found himself being praised by Republicans and attacked by his fellow Democrats for the move...
...Strictly on legal grounds, it was an easy call for Attorney General Eric Holder's Justice Department to decide three weeks ago that - having fought the release of the photos in federal court, and lost, three times - that further appeals would be fruitless. So the Justice Department urged the Pentagon to strike a deal with the ACLU, and both sides agreed the photographs would be released by May 28. (See "Abu Ghraib Aftershocks," photographs documenting the prison abuse scandal...
...April 23 announcement of the agreement. In weekly video conferences and private letters, top commanders in the region expressed grave concerns over the possible impact of the photographs. Both Afghan president Hamid Karzai and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki raised similar doubts over the decision, a senior Pentagon official says...