Obama Moves to Bar Release of Detainee Abuse Photos

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/us/politics/14photos.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper

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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, May 14, 2009 at 12:25 PM
Subject: re: Obama Moves to Bar Release of Detainee Abuse Photos
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To the Editor:

   Many of the actions and policies of the Bush administration provided recruiting opportunities for Al Qaeda. The detention of innocents without charges or trial, the abuse and even killing of prisoners and the falsification of data to justify the invasion of Iraq all have been used to recruit new fighters to resist and repel the American presence in Iraq and Afghanistan.  President Obama would do well to distance himself from these policies. By preferring to cover them up, he makes these sins his own and feeds our enemies.

Barry Levine