The White House announced today that it wouldn’t be releasing a photo of the corpse of Osama bin Laden. But IMHO the fact that many persons (White House staffers, Congressmen, armed service personnel) have already seen the pictures, and with morbid curiosity being what it is, it’s only a matter of time before somebody leaks a copy of the picture.
If it happens, how long do you think that process will take?
I think we will see one within a month. Sure would be better from an official channel though.
I kinda hope that’s the official strategy…“No, will not release the photos, because that would be disrespectful and tastl…oh, no, someone leaked it. I wonder how that happened. Damn WikiLeaks.”
My thoughts exactly. Obama will get to take the moral high ground, and the world will get their snuff photo. Win-win.
I’m guessing that it will be coincidentally right around the time the Carl Vinson puts into a port with decent cellphone service.
Declan
I heard that congress was passing around pictures already. If it’s a real one, I’d suspect them of leaking before the military.
I demand to see OBL’s birth certificate! He can’t be dead if you can’t even prove he was born! 
Chuck Todd on NBC this morning that the congressmen have “backed off” their statements of having seen photos. So either they were lying or are lying now. What else is new? :rolleyes:
Worth considering, perhaps:
(Quite a few similar things are in the “Trending Now” section at Yahoo!)
It was on my Facebook feed two days ago. 
Several senators thought they had seen it but others said no, they hadn’t. In investigating the discrepancy it was discovered the picture a few had seen was in fact the “fake Osama photo”, hence the confusion and change in answer.
Don’t they have to really kill him before releasing a real death photo? That may take years. 
Well, they did get a bunch of his personal home videos including one of him watching himself on TV. This article says they plan to use these videos to paint him in a negative light to his supporters, so we’ll probably see them at some point.
What I thought was hilarious though was the last line of the article:
You mean… exactly like a politician?