Abu Ghraib: Judge Rules "by and large, in favor of public disclosure"

[Warren DeMontague]

This is regarding the Government's attempt to keep its arguments for a 7(F) exemption from the FOIA secret from the public.

The bad news is, they can appeal, so most certainly they will.

Hearing on Aug. 30 regarding whether or not the actual material needs to be released.

And so it goes, on and on...

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--detaineerecords0815aug15,0,6072046.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork

[Career Prole]

1. Your Honor...you're the *least* of our problems.

From article:

The judge scheduled arguments on the question of whether the photographs and videos should be released for Aug. 30, saying a speedy decision is important so the public's right to know isn't compromised.

The public's right-to-know has been compromised so many damned times in so many damned ways that now a war criminal actually sits in the Executive Mansion...er, or on a pig farm in Crawford inflicted by truthophobia...but still, a war criminal has an office in the White House.

[Warren DeMontague]

3. I'm wondering what the process for an "appeal" is with the redacted

arguments;

and can they do the same thing if they're ordered to release the material itself? (Silly me, I thought they already WERE ordered to do so)

And considering how long this has been going on (2 years and counting) at what point does an endless series of delays make a mockery of the FOIA just as surely as withholding evidence on bogus or spurious grounds?

[Warren DeMontague]

2. Waiting for the ACLU take.

Sounds to me like Judge Hellerstein hasn't reneged on his commitment to the public's right to know, although he doesn't sound as angry as I might have expected considering the highly unusual way the government threw these redacted 7(F) arguments in at the last hour.

I wonder, particularly, what Gen. Myers said in the redacted portion of his piece.

[annabanana]

4. so.. a new date to watch come and go..

a "Hearing on Aug. 30 regarding whether or not the actual material needs to be released"

(apparently being handled seperately from the "reason's given that they shouldn't be released)