Thread: CIA to show bin Laden photos to House, Senate panels

May 10, 2011

CNN: CIA to show bin Laden photos to House, Senate panels

06:54 PM
By Michael Winter, USA TODAY

CNN is reporting that the CIA will show photos of the corpse of Osama bin Laden to members congressional military and intelligence committees.

Members of the Senate Armed Services and Intelligence committees, along with their House counterparts,will be shown the photos at CIA headquarters at a time to be decided, a U.S. official told CNN.

President Obama decided last week that he would not publicly release the "very graphic photos" of the al-Qaeda leader after he was shot in the head and killed during the raid on his Pakistan compound.

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Some U.S. lawmakers to view bin Laden body photos

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ANNAPOLIS, Maryland (AP) — Some members of Congress will be allowed to view photographs of Osama bin Laden's body, a spokeswoman for a Maryland congressman said Wednesday.

Heather Molino, a spokeswoman for U.S. Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, said the Democratic congressman is planning to view the photos at CIA headquarters either Wednesday or Thursday.

"He is interested and wants to see them," Molino said.

Ruppersberger is a member of the House Intelligence Committee. All of that committee's members are among the congressional representatives who have been offered a chance to view the photographs, Molino said.

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Last week, Ruppersberger said he agreed with the White House's decision not to publicly release photos of bin Laden's body. Ruppersberger, who spoke at a retirement community on Friday about the raid in Pakistan that resulted in bin Laden's death, said the photos could stoke anger among bin Laden supporters.

"Why enrage the rest of the world who don't like us? And we don't want them to rally behind his death to hurt us again," Ruppersberger said last week.

Ruppersberger noted that the decision not to release the photographs publicly could be re-evaluated "down the road."

"The purpose is, it's endgame, to protect American lives," Ruppersberger said.

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