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DoD Gave Order to “Destroy” Bin Laden Death Photos Hours After FOIA Request
Cover-up: Pentagon desperate to keep images out of public domain

by: Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
February 11, 2014

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U.S. Special Operations Commander Admiral William McRaven ordered his subordinates to destroy photos showing the corpse of Osama Bin Laden just hours after an FOIA lawsuit seeking the documents was filed in the United States Court for the District of Columbia.

Judicial Watch, the group that filed the initial FOIA request, published an email released to them by the Department of Defense in which McRaven writes;

"One particular item that I want to emphasize is photos; particularly UBLs remains. At this point – all photos should have been turned over to the CIA; if you still have them destroy them immediately or get them to the [redacted]."

The email was sent on Friday, May 31, 2011 at 5:09pm, hours after Judicial Watch held a 
morning press conference announcing that their FOIA request had been filed in court.

“The move by McRaven to purge the photos appears to have come, at least in part, in response to aggressive efforts by Judicial Watch to obtain images of the deceased bin Laden that President Obama, in a rewrite of federal open records law, had refused to disclose,” writes the whistleblower organization.

According to Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton, the “email is a smoking gun, revealing both contempt for the rule of law and the American’s people right to know. The Obama administration has tried to cover this scandal up – and our lawsuit exposed it. We demand further investigation of the effort to destroy documents about the bin Laden raid.”
Why did McRaven order the photos to be destroyed? Why is the Pentagon so desperate to keep the images out of the public domain?

Is it because the images are fake, that they do not show wounds consistent with the narrative surrounding the Navy SEAL raid on Bin Laden’s compound, or that they are dated from years previously?

Image: Judicial Watch

As we have exhaustively documented, the story surrounding the raid is dubious at best and has been changed on numerous occasions.

Last year, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh said that the whole incident was “one big lie” and that “not one word” of the Obama administration’s narrative on what happened was true.

Speculation that the Obama administration may have embellished or outright lied about the true account of what happened has persisted, mainly because the White House has refused to publicly release images of Bin Laden’s body.

Although the White House said the corpse was immediately “buried at sea” in line with Islamic tradition, it quickly emerged that this was not standard practice.

Numerous analysts have claimed that Bin Laden had in fact been dead for years and that the raid on his alleged compound in Pakistan was little more than a stunt.

Other questions also persist, such as why the narrative and timeline of the raid has changed multiple times, why the White House initially claimed that “situation room” photos showed Obama watching the raid live when in fact there was a blackout on the live feed, and why neighbors in the immediate area surrounding the compound said with absolute certainty that they had never seen Bin Laden and that they knew of no evidence whatsoever to suggest he lived there.

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Pentagon has no records of Osama bin Laden’s death

Dr. Eowyn
Fellowship of the Minds
March 28, 2012

Obama touts the Navy SEALS’ raid and killing of Osama bin Laden in his hideaway compound in Abbotabad, Pakistan, as one of, if not the greatest, achievements of his administration. Reportedly, the administration even disclosed details of the raid to Hollywood for an upcoming movie, Zero Dark Thirty, directed by Kathryn Bigelow.

The movie is scheduled to be released — SURPRISE! — on October 12, 2012, within a month of the presidential election.

Joseph Straw reports for the N.Y. Daily News, Aug. 11, 2011, that the CIA defended its collaboration with the maker of Zero Dark Thirty. CIA spokesman Preston Golson said that such collaboration with filmmakers has precedent and is part of the CIA’s “public outreach.” Despite the CIA’s insistence, Congressman Peter King (R-Long Island), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, has demanded that the Pentagon and CIA inspectors general investigate whether the agencies breached policy in this case, in particular whether the filmmakers saw classified material or got access to personnel working under cover.

Given that, it is  curious, to say the least, that, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request made by the Associated Press, the Pentagon says it has no records — not one photo, not one video, not even an e-mail — of bin Laden’s death.

Richard Lardner reports for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 15, 2012:

     Government officials have openly discussed details of the mission [to kill Osama bin 
     Laden] in speeches, interviews and television appearances, but the administration won’t 
     disclose records that would confirm their narrative of that fateful night. The Associated 
     Press asked for files about the raid in more than 20 separate [FOIA] requests, mostly 
     submitted the day after bin Laden’s death.

     The Pentagon told the AP this month it could not locate any photographs or video taken 
     during the raid or showing bin Laden’s body. It also said it could not find any images of bin 
     Laden’s body on the Navy aircraft carrier where the al-Qaida leader’s body was taken.

     The Pentagon said it could not find any death certificate, autopsy report or results of DNA 

     identification tests for bin Laden, or any pre-raid materials discussing how the government 

     planned to dispose of bin Laden’s body if he were killed.

     It said it searched files at the Pentagon, U.S. Special Operations Command in Tampa, 

     Fla., and the Navy command in San Diego that controls the USS Carl Vinson, the aircraft 

     carrier used in the mission.

     The Defense Department told the AP in late February it could not find any emails about   

     the bin Laden mission or his “Geronimo” code name that were sent or received in the year 

     before the raid by William McRaven, the three-star admiral at the Joint Special 

     Operations Command who organized and oversaw the mission. It also could not find any 

     emails from other senior officers who would have been involved in the mission’s planning.

     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

     Note: WantToKnow team member Prof. David Ray Griffin, in his book Osama bin Laden: 

     Dead or Alive?, lays out the extensive evidence that bin laden died in December 2001, 

     and that since that time Pentagon psyops had been keeping him “alive” with fake videos 

     and audiotapes to maintain a crucial pretext for the ever-expanding “war on terror.” Could 

     it be that the Pentagon will produce no records of its purported “death raid” because in fact 

     it will reveal major manipulations involving bin Laden’s death?

On August 6, 2011, three months after the supposed killing of bin Laden, 22 members of the exact same Navy SEALS Team 6 who had conducted the Abbotabad raid all died in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.

Dead men don’t tell tales.

I guess President Obama `aint telling us the WHOLE truth on the Afghan War

Is it a surprise, really?

'Obama fools citizens over Afghan war’
Press TV
February 7, 2012

An interview with Paul Martin, political director of Peace Action:

An outstanding political activist says that despite US President Barrack Obama declaring success in the war on Afghanistan, the US government has lost control of the country.

United States Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis has warned that the mission in Afghanistan is a failure.

The top US military official has also accused Washington of misleading the American people about its war in the Asian country.

Press TV has conducted an interview with Paul Martin, political director of Peace Action, to further discuss the issue.

The following is a transcription of the interview (click here for interview video).

Press TV: Your take by these latest statements being made by a military man himself, saying that the war has been a failure - your take. And thanks so much for being with us.

Martin: Thanks for having me. It’s not surprising, we’ve known for quite some time, but the Pentagon uses its information services, really, as propaganda to spread the information that they want to spread and to portray things in the light that they want to spread them.

So, when they say things are going successful in Afghanistan, they also said that about Iraq, it’s not surprising that when reporters or others who can have inside information actually find out the facts.

The facts are, such as in Afghanistan, that things aren’t going as well. We do not have control of various parts of Afghanistan. The Afghanistan forces cannot control parts of Afghanistan as our government would like to say, and the strategy is failing.

The only strategy left is a political strategy which means bring the troops out of Afghanistan, and talking to the Taliban and finding some sort of peace process.

Press TV: Of course, Mr. Martin, this has been going on a long time as far as the Afghan war and the Taliban or the militants, actually, getting greater and greater control over the areas. How significant is it, though, that this is a high ranking military official saying this? And at this point in time, during an election year, isn’t it significant?

Martin: Yes, I think so. The Obama administration has been saying that their strategy has been successful and that’s why they’re planning on pulling 33,000 troops out by the end of September.

But it’s clear that the strategy has not been successful and probably part of reasons of pulling the troops out is because this is not a strategy that seems to work.

It is very noteworthy that it’s not only a high ranking military official but it’s a currently serving military official. Colonel Davis is still in the military, he’s actually based in the Pentagon.

So, it’s noteworthy that he took the time to spread this information through various media outlets before finally telling his commanders that he was going to do so.

GMA/JR

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