Among the trove documents seized by Seal Team 6 during the 2011 raid on Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad compound: a massive porn stash.

U.S. officials said the porn collection "consists of modern, electronically recorded video and is fairly extensive." But, although much of what was recovered in the bin Laden raid has been declassified, this huge library of terrorist jerk-off material remains guarded by the CIA. On Monday, a conservative group called Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit demanding the CIA comply with a Freedom of Information Act request submitted last year for the Al Qaeda-approved adult videos. And, yes, there's a juicy kicker. As Politico reports:

The suit was filed in U.S. District Court in Washington and assigned to Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, an Obama nominee who has appeared on numerous lists of judges whom Obama might nominate to fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia last month.

According to Politico, some are claiming the release of the porn stockpile could undermine bin Laden's image as a pious figure, others say it wouldn't do anything at all. But consider this: Here in the United States, the First Amendment gives us the freedom to watch any pornography we want, within the boundaries of what's considered legal and obscene. This means if the porn discovered among the many other declassified materials on bin Laden's compound aren't released to the public the terrorists win. 

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