Obama wants to make more anti-US terrorists

That is the only conclusion that can be drawn from this news that the Obama administration will no longer fight the ACLU's attempts to publish photos of "detainee abuse".

In a letter from the Justice Department to a federal judge yesterday, the Obama administration announced that the Pentagon would turn over to the American Civil Liberties Union 44 photographs showing detainee abuse of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq during the Bush administration.
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But some experts say the move could have a chilling effect on the CIA even beyond President Obama's decision last week to release the so-called "torture memos."

Calling the ACLU push to release the photographs "prurient" and "reprehensible," Dr. Mark M. Lowenthal, former Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Analysis and Production, tells ABC News that the Obama administration should have taken the case all the way to the Supreme Court.

"They should have fought it all the way; if they lost, they lost," said Lowenthal, who retired from the Agency in 2005. "There's nothing to be gained from it. There's no substantive reason why those photos have to be released."

Now if I recollect correctly, the view from the left was that the Abu Ghraib photos were a recruitment boon for jihadis. If so, what can be the logical point of release a new batch of photos?

Feeling safer??