Senators duped by fake bin Laden photo

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Breitbart:

Three US senators retracted their claims of having seen a graphic photograph of Osama bin Laden's corpse, apparently the victims of a fake picture of the slain Al-Qaeda chief.

Senator Saxby Chambliss, the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, had told reporters he had seen photos from the raid inside Pakistan during which the terrorist mastermind fell to US special forces commandos.

"They're what you would expect from somebody's been shot in the head. It's not pretty," he said on Wednesday, hours before it became clear that inauthentic photos had circulated among US lawmakers.

Asked whether Chambliss, who is also a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, had in fact seen an official photo, spokeswoman Bronwyn Lance-Chester told AFP late in the day that "he has been very clear about this: He has not seen the official photo."

Two other members of the armed services committee, Republican Senators Kelly Ayotte and Scott Brown, also backed off claims that they had seen gruesome photos of bin Laden's corpse.

Ayotte had said that "another senator" had showed her the picture and indicated that it showed bin Laden's head and upper torso.

"When you see the picture, it clearly has his features," she told reporters.

At day's end, Ayotte issued a statement saying: "While I was shown a photo by another senator of what appeared to be a deceased Osama bin Laden, I do not know if it was authentic."
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Related: Beware bin Laden photo scams.

[clearvision]

Hmmmm.... so who as actually seen the dead Osama photos?

[Draggingtree]

Federal appeals court unanimously rules bin Laden photos can remain secret

By Jeremy Herb - 05/21/13 11:30 AM ET

 

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the CIA does not have to release photos of Osama bin Laden’s corpse to the public.

 

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that the CIA’s concerns the images could incite violence and harm national security were sufficient to keep the bin Laden photos classified.

 

The appellate court’s unanimous ruling rejected a lawsuit from Judicial Watch, the conservative watchdog group that had sued for the photos to be released

http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/policy-and-strategy/300965-appeals-court-rules-bin-laden-photos-can-remain-secret

[Pepper]

@clearvision

 

Fake but real.

 

Wouldn't be the first time the solons were duped. Its about time. They have duped us for years.