Supreme Court rules to keep detainee abuse photos secret - Yahoo! News: "WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court did all it could Monday to lock up forever some incendiary photos that show U.S. soldiers abusing foreign prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan .
Yielding to Congress and the White House , justices took the expected but formal step of reversing a lower court's order that the pictures be released. Using its budget powers, Congress already had moved to keep the photos secret.
In a brief, unsigned decision issued Monday without elaboration, the court cited a provision in a Homeland Security funding bill that President Barack Obama signed Oct. 28 . The provision permitted the Pentagon to block the public release of the pictures in question, as well as others deemed to 'endanger' U.S. soldiers or civilians.
'Disclosure of those photographs would pose a clear and grave risk of inciting violence and riots against American troops and coalition forces,' Solicitor General Elena Kagan had warned the Supreme Court .
The Justice Department's brief noted that one picture shows 'several soldiers posing near standing detainees who are handcuffed to bars with sandbags covering their heads while a soldier holds a broom as if sticking (its) end ... into the rectum of a restrained detainee.'"
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