In 2013, three judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that post-mortem photographs of Osama bin Laden could remain secret.

“As the district court rightly concluded,” the opinion said, “the CIA’s declarations give reason to believe that releasing images of American military personnel burying the founder and leader of al Qaeda could cause exceptionally grave harm.”

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