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Obama Signs Law Authorizing Suppression of Torture Photos

By | 10.29.09 | 6:33 pm

Among other things in the Homeland Security appropriations bill President Obama signed into law yesterday is a provision that authorizes the Defense Department to continue to conceal photos of the torture and abuse of detainees by U.S. forces. The American Civil Liberties Union had More…