U.S. Likely To Release Corpse Photos; Burial at Sea Video Soon

[tekisui]

Source: Slate

Two Pentagon officials have told the Associated Press that Osama Bin Laden's burial in the North Arabian Sea was videotaped and that it will likely be publicly released soon.

It looks like it's a matter of when, not if, the White House will release a photograph of Osama Bin Laden's corpse.

John Brennan, a top counterterrorism adviser to President Obama, suggested to reporters at an afternoon press briefing Monday that a photo will be released at some point in the future. He said that the administration wants to ensure that “nobody has any basis to try to deny that we got Osama Bin Laden.”

But Brennan added that it may take some time before the release because the administration is proceeding with an abundance of caution. “We don’t want to do anything to compromise our ability to be successful the next time we get one of these guys and take him off the battlefield,” he said.

more: http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/05/02/bin_laden_corpse_photos_white_house_debates_releasing_photograph.html

[patrick t. cakes]

1. how does showing a corpse...

compromise anything?


"But Brennan added that it may take some time before the release because the administration is proceeding with an abundance of caution. “We don’t want to do anything to compromise our ability to be successful the next time we get one of these guys and take him off the battlefield,” he said."

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. I think they're being appropriately cautious.

I approve of such pictures when they come from a reliable source.

Recommended.

[dipsydoodle]

3. Music soundtrack here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnU3Isc00yc

[RKP5637]

4. If they wait too long many peoples minds will already have been made up or twisted to

however they have already been influenced. A mind cast in cement is a hard thing to change.

[tekisui]

5. Another Slate link was saying as early as today.

[RKP5637]

6. Good! n/t

[flamingdem]

7. I think they've been editing all night

you know it's all in the edit!

And you KNOW how popular the word NARRATIVE has become lately.. it's ruining things for filmakers and academics that all these wonks and pundits overuse that word turning it into a cliche.. but anyway

They are selecting shots with care, one wrong move and some embassy gets attacked!