White House Press Secretary Jay Carney has confirmed President Obama's decision not to release photos of a dead Osama bin Laden.
During an interview with 60-minutes, President Obama was asked about whether he would release the photos, he responded in-part with the following.
"It was him."
"That's not who we are. We don't trot out this stuff as trophies. The fact of the matter is this was somebody who was deserving of the justice that he received and I think Americans and people around the world are glad that we need to spike the football and given the graphic nature of these photos it would create a national security risk and I've discussed this with Bob Gates and Hillary Clinton and my intelligence teams and they all agree."
"You will not see bin Laden walking on this earth again."
"Because that's who we are."
Update I: According to Politico, Obama made the announcement that he will not release photos of bin Laden during a taping for a 60-minutes episode set to air later this week.
Obama made the announcement in a taped interview with CBS News set to air later Wednesday, which is part of reporter Steve Kroft’s first interview with the president since bin Laden was killed, set to air on “60 Minutes.”
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