UPDATED: Obama Says No Osama Post-Mortem Photos Will Be Released

Sounds official.

Related: WSJ: Why we want to look death in the face.

UPDATE: Not up to Obama if requested under FOIA?

MORE: R.S. McCain has a robust round-up of related links.

ANOTHER ONE: Contrast with Obama’s attitude towards Abu Ghraib photos merely 2 years agoLondon Telegraph: “Barack Obama to release up to 2,000 photographs of prisoner abuse”.

But those were photos of events that occurred during the Bush administration.    So it’s OK to offend Muslim sensibilities with those.

It’s not a double standard.  It’s the party line.