Obama Administration Keeps Fighting To Keep Gitmo Force-Feeding Videos Secret

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration indicated on Thursday that it would seek to continue to keep secret heavily redacted videos showing a former Guantanamo Bay detainee being force-fed.

Justice Department attorneys notified a federal court in Washington on Thursday that the government would appeal an order that would have allowed the public to see the videos on Friday. A federal judge last year had ordered the release of the edited videos showing former Guantanamo prisoner Abu Wa'el Dhiab being force-fed and forcibly extracted from his prison cell. The government had argued that the videos would be used as Islamic State propaganda, "inflame Muslim sensitivities" and "subject the U.S. Government to criticism," though they maintain the videos show no wrongdoing by military personnel. Several media organizations argued for the release of the videos.

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