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Terror Porn Alert: You May See Photos Of Bin Laden's Corpse

It's a proud day to be an American terror-porn fetishist: an analysis of a DOJ filing by The Atlantic Wire reveals that the Obama administration may be forced to release photos of Osama bin Laden's dead body if "sensitive information" is redacted. The portion of the brief "concedes that there are reasonably segregable, nonexempt portions of the records that are legally required to be disclosed," a former director of the DOJ's Office of Information and Privacy says. Will they still be released "like a wedding album?"

Judicial Watch sued to obtain the files on bin Laden's death, but the Justice Department argued that all 52 records to bin Laden's death were exempt from FOIA. It was noted last spring that the government may have overplayed their hand, and Metcalfe, the legal expert, agrees. “The government’s ‘going-in’ position here, to put it in common litigation terms, is grossly overbroad." Congressmen aren't the only ones who can revel in grisly glory—"The brains were coming out of his socket!"

A section of one of the president's executive orders that covers the classification of information crucial to national security stipulates that such information

whenever practicable, use a classified addendum whenever classified information constitutes a small portion of an otherwise unclassified document or prepare a product to allow for dissemination at the lowest level of classification possible or in unclassified form.

According the former head of the government's Information Security Oversight Office, Barry may need to brush up on his Photoshopping: "If you're taking still photos, it's very easy to disaggregate a single photo from a batch of photos, and if you have a video it's easy to disaggregate clips from others."

We'll probably end up seeing bin Laden's body shortly before it was buried at sea, to prevent provoking too much outrage. But when? Let's bet on an October Surprise.

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  • HillmanDC

    This serves absolutely no good purpose.  By and large the Arab world has accepted his death and moved on.  Publishing inflammatory photos at this point does no one any good.

  • FUCKING SHOW IT I DARE YOU MOTHERFUCKERS

    And I want incontrovertible proof that it is Bin Laden and where and when they said it all happened

  • theevilerone

    Screensaver!

  • Investigate-NWO-globalists

    I stopped believing corrupt government lies many years ago.  Everyone needs to do his/her own research.

  • Dead Himmler

    Displaying a picture of a dead person is distasteful. 

  • imadick

    the truth knows not taste

  • fosiacat

    just what i want to see, a bloody corpse. 

    i don't care who it is, i don't want to see it.

  • pendejito

    Ok, then don't look at it.

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