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Carter Wants Torture Pics Released

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 1, 2009 2:03 PM CDT

(Newser) – Jimmy Carter politely disagrees with the current president’s move to block photos depicting prisoner torture in Iraq and Afghanistan from public view. “I don't agree with him,” the former president said of Barack Obama. “But I certainly don't criticize him for making that decision,” he tells CNN's Campbell Brown in an interview airing tonight. Still, Carter is disappointed. “Most of his supporters were hoping that he would be much more open in the revelation of what we've done in the past.”

Carter also lightly criticized the president’s “live and let live” philosophy about trials for Bush-era Justice officials. “What I would like to see is a complete examination of what did happen, the identification of any perpetrators of crimes against our own laws or against international law,” he said. “And then after all that's done, decide whether or not there should be any prosecutions.”

Jimmy Carter in Marrakech, Morocco.
Jimmy Carter in Marrakech, Morocco.   (AP Photo)
President Barack Obama walks past a portrait of former President Jimmy Carter in the Cross Hall of the White House.
President Barack Obama walks past a portrait of former President Jimmy Carter in the Cross Hall of the White House.   (AP Photo)
Former President Jimmy Carter testifies on Capitol Hill.
Former President Jimmy Carter testifies on Capitol Hill.   (AP Photo)
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Doctor-Zaius
Jun 3, 2009 11:19 AM CDT
Were we talking about Bush?
Doctor-Zaius
Jun 3, 2009 11:18 AM CDT
Too bad he couldn't avoid the greatest domestic intelligence failure of the last 200 years.
RobN
Jun 2, 2009 12:43 PM CDT
To begin with, since when is your worth as a president determined by a gallup poll? Is that really the basis you want to use to determine effectiveness? Do you really want a president making the tough decisions based on polling? Secondly, even if you're going to go with the poll numbers, Carter ends up in the middle because nobody can remember a damn thing he did outside of the hostage situation.

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