Reply #30: Except the idea that the pictures would be inflammatory [View All]

and that the government wouldn't want to release them for reasons of embarrassment or because it would make them "look bad" has been figured into this thing all along. It's not a new argument; it's a delaying tactic. If anything, the only "new" argument that they seem to have, here, is that the Newsweek imbroglio (that damn librul media, again!) caused them to suddenly realize that people in the Middle East might get pissed off if they thought US forces had done bad things.

I suggest you read the government's newest arguments. Not only are they (the non-redacted portions) idiotic, 70% read like brainless cheerleading and rehashing of the rationales for the "Global War on Terror" (including, of course, the invasion of Iraq)

Pretty slim reeds, legally, I should think.