Lieberman-Graham torture photo ban will be added to 'every piece of legislation that comes down the

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Lieberman Hates Transparency, Flips Over Detainee Photos
Posted by Ryan Powers, Think Progress at 4:31 PM on June 9, 2009.

Lieberman-Graham torture photo ban will be added to 'every piece of legislation that comes down the pike.'

Yesterday, Jane Hamsher reported that the detainee photo amendment sponsored by Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was stripped from the war supplemental in committee. The amendment would have allowed the Obama administration to suppress any “photograph taken between September 11, 2001 and January 22, 2009 relating to the treatment of individuals engaged, captured, or detained” after 9/11 by U.S. forces. This afternoon, Graham and Lieberman held a press conference to register their objections to dropping the measure and announce that they had “added our original legislation as an amendment to the FDA regulation of tobacco bill that’s on the floor right now”:

LIEBERMAN: e’re going to vote against cloture on the bill, and I’m going to do everything I can to see if I can convince other Democrats to do that.

We’re just not going to roll over because some folks in the House don’t like this amendment. e’re going to do everything we can to hold up the supplemental appropriations bill until we’re sure that this amendment prohibiting the release of these dangerous photographs is on that bill. And then we’ll continue to do everything we can to attach it to other legislation, to slow up the process.

Graham said the amendment was needed because “These photos, if they’re released, will be used by the enemy to incite violence as they walk down these streets.” A “senior Democratic aide” told the Weekly Standard that the two senators would “attach to every piece of legislation that comes down the pike.”

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1. I can only hope that neocon Joe faces justice, along with the rest of the of the fascists

and winds up on a cold cell floor in the Hague.

[Somawas]

2. Lieberman said "other Democrats"? He's a Democrat now? nt

[saigon68]

4. Yes Traitor Joementum wants "Back in the Fold"

He's also a MCLame/Palin enabler.

[votingupstart]

5. that was my thought when i read it - someone looking for a home?? nt

[Lasher]

3. Convince other Democrats?

Is Lieberman too stupid to realize he's not a Democrat, or does he think we're dumb enough to believe he is still one of us?

[rurallib]

6. These photos must really be bad.

But just the fact that "the enemy" (who is this exactly?) knows about them is enough to fan the flames.
Never should have done that torturing should you Joe? It always comes back to haunt you.

[Hubert Flottz]

8. I wonder if Joe and his friend are in any of those pictures?

[Hubert Flottz]

7. The DC Chapter of 'Drama Queens for More BushCo-ism'...

I wonder who's kissing George Now?

Those two butt munchers won't be happy until they've turned Islam into Waslam.

[lunatica]

9. This is a good example to apply the 'follow the money' principle

I wonder if Lieberman hates all those holocaust photos. Maybe he thinks they should have all been put in a vault and sealed for eternity so people like Ahmadinejad could convince the world that the Holocaust never happened.

Both of these people are fucking fuck ups!

[Lost Jaguar]

10. This Amendment is...

...a naked admission that the photos depict egregious war crimes. Release them! Let justice be done, 'though the Heavens fall!

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11. Really Joe? Really?

You're going to filibuster the war funding supplemental if the photos of our handiwork don't continue to be suppressed? Really? I don't think I'm alone in saying, "Go for it."

[G_j]

12. yep, bring it on, Joe!

fine with me