I thought Pres. Bush or Sec. Rumsfeld banned photos of military coffins but that policy was in put in place during the Bush senior term.
Defense Chief Lifts Ban on Pictures of Coffins
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
Published: February 26, 2009
NY Times
WASHINGTON — In a reversal of an 18-year-old military policy that critics said was hiding the ultimate cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the news media will now be allowed to photograph the coffins of America’s war dead as their bodies are returned to the United States, but only if the families of the dead agree.
The decision, which Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates announced Thursday, lifts a 1991 blanket ban on such photographs put in place under President George Bush. It chiefly affects coffins arriving from Iraq and Afghanistan that go through Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.
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