The pictures were to be released to the ACLU. Who even says they

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

would have made them public? Was the ACLU trying to build a LEGAL CASE against the Bush administration for their criminal acts and perhaps might have held those pictures close to the vest. Is that even a possibility? Or were they working on behalf of some of the detainees and is it pertinent to their cases?

I wonder if the ACLU has spoken to this point. Was obtaining the pictures for a specific legal purpose or were they to be released for general consumption? Even if they were to be circulated, if ,as Obama himself has stated, they were no worse than what is already in the public venue, holding them back makes most jump to the conclusion that they were worse.