WASHINGTON — The CIA will show photographs of Usama bin Laden’s body to select U.S. lawmakers, though they must travel to the agency’s headquarters to see the images, Fox News Channel reported Tuesday.
The White House announced last week that it would not release graphic images of bin Laden’s corpse, with President Barack Obama telling CBS there was no reason to “spike the football.”
“That’s not who we are. We don’t trot out this stuff as trophies,” Obama told CBS in a “60 Minutes” interview that aired Sunday.
According to Fox, members of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence will be able to travel to CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., to view the photographs, which have been described by White House press secretary Jay Carney as “gruesome.”
Unsaid in this news is that the lawmakers who get to see the photos are the same lawmakers who get to hide in the secret bunker when a giant asteroid hits the planet. For everyone else, sorry suckers!
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