More Heartbreak in Washington

So do you remember a few weeks back, when the Obama administration decided that it was going to release photos that the ACLU was demanding that apparently show abuse of detainees in Iraq? Not any more:

President Obama met with White House counsel Greg Craig and other members of the White House counsel team last week and told them that he had second thoughts about the decision to hand over photographs of detainee abuse to the ACLU, per a judge's order, and had changed his mind.

The president "believes their release would endanger our troops," a White House official says, adding that the president "believes that the national security implications of such a release have not been fully presented to the court."

Ya think? We've covered this ground several times before, of course, as the cocksure Obamanoids continue to discover the implications of the posturing they put forth on the campaign trail.

For their part, the ACLU is highly displeased:

"The reversal is another indication of a continuance of the Bush administration policies under the Obama administration," ACLU attorney Amrit Singh told ABC News. "President Obama's promise of accountability is meaningless, this is inconsistent with his promise of transparency, it violates the government's commitment to the court. People need to examine these abusive photographs, but also the government officials need to be held accountable."

Word to the wise, counselor: the president is a politician first, middle and last. I'd say that I'm sorry he broke your heart, but I'm not really that sorry. While I agree that government officials need to be held accountable, I'm hardly convinced that they need to be held accountable to the ACLU.