Obama has a far left base that is calling, with complete lack of regard or perspective on national security, for documents and photos to be released in an attempt to somehow use it to prosecute officials of the former administration. They want revenge.
Of course this wont happen because all the release of documents will do is prove a large swathe of Democrats lied all along about their knowledge and involvement, and in an effort to clear themselves from blame, they will conveniently rationalize the interrogation techniques. In doing so, they will also by default, rationalize its use by the Bush Administration.
Which for example Dianne Feinstein (D) did:
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"I don't want to make an apology for anybody, but in 2002, it wasn't 2006, 07, 08 or 09. It was right after 9/11, and there were in fact discussions about a second wave of attacks"
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Which is of course when and why they were implemented by the Bush Administration and apparently memos so far unreleased describe that the techniques did provide information stopping another attack. The left made another impotent attempt at blaming everything on Bush to remove eyes from Obama's missteps, but all it will do is dig a grave for the Democrats.
Now in 2009, releasing the photos will serve no one any purpose other than to get people killed, completely in spite of the outright lie that they'd be used to see if this treatment was of a broader scale and directly sanctioned and called for by former President Bush. I see it as grasping desperately for straws to try and live out the far left fantasies of imprisoning Bush administration officials.
I do hope if President Obama decides to step out of the corner he has painted himself into, he doesn't release the photos. Because if he does, he and all that called for them should be considered complicit in the outcome after the Muslim world is once again whipped into a frothing rage and decides to go bomb some markets and set up some IEDs.