Lawyers for the Defense Department are refusing to cooperate with a federal judge's order to release secret photographs and videotapes related to the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal.
The lawyers said in a letter sent to the federal court in Manhattan late Thursday that they would file a sealed brief explaining their reasons for not turning over the material, which they were to have released by yesterday.
But wait a minute, it turns out that the entire premise of the administration bashing article was WRONG!
The NYT corrections section...
An article on Saturday about a federal judge's order regarding photographs and videotapes related to the Abu Ghraib prison scandal misstated a deadline and the response by Defense Department lawyers. The government was given until Friday to black out some identifying details in the material, not to release it. Defense Department lawyers met that deadline, but asked the court to block the public release of the materials. They did not refuse to cooperate with an order for the materials' release.
This latest wish-fullfillment news fiasco follows only a couple weeks after the NYT had to retract 2 alleged quotes, fabricated whole cloth by NYT editors that changed the tone of an Iraq vet's story. In true blind-to-their-culture-think philosophy the NYT simply apologized for the error in printing them, missing the point that their editorial board has some serious bias issues, issues that have destroyed the product.
NYT "Government Defies an Order to Release Iraq Abuse Photos"
