US official backs Marines’ request to classify photos of forces urinating on Taliban corpses – Boing Boing

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US official backs Marines’ request to classify photos of forces urinating on Taliban corpses

“In an apparent expansion of the government’s secrecy powers, the top official in charge of the classification system has decided that it was legitimate for the Marines to classify photograph…

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Information Security Oversight Office director John P. Fitzpatrick accepted the argument made by the Marines for classifying the photographs: the photos could encourage attacks against US troops