Dan Froomkin wrote yesterday in Obama Joins the Cover Up:
My tendency is to disagree with this perspective and I imagine it's a perspective that is shared by a lot of people who were against the war and the abuse of detainees in Iraq and the torture of suspected terrorists in Guantanamo. By releasing the memos that served as the intellectual and apologetic framework of these abuses, Pres. Obama made clear the extent of such treatment of individuals in US custody and the official sanction of the treatment. I think it's appropriate for the courts to decide this question--I think their release could have negative global effects and it's exactly the sort of question that the courts should address. We know what the abuse looked like thanks to the eariler pictures and I'm not sure that a fresh collection of photos will meaningfully increase our knowledge but they will definitely up the emotional ante, at least in the short term.
There's gonna be a lot of squawking on the left over this one but I think it's a judgment call and, as much as I have an opinion, I'm tending to agree with the president.
Here's the ACLU's release on the Obama reversal: Obama Administration Reverses Decision to Release Torture Photos.
And you can get more info on the ACLU's FOIA lawsuit here: Torture Documents Released Under FOIA