"the Bush administration did a fine job of keeping certain pics outta the media, including pics of caskets at Dover Airforce Base"

Defense Chief Lifts Ban on Pictures of Coffins
February 26, 2009

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.