White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said that the Los Angeles Times editors were warned ahead of time that publishing photos of soldiers posing with Afghan corpses would endanger soldiers.

“The Pentagon obviously urged the newspaper not to publish these photos,” Carney told reporters today. “There are issues that I think are quite clear to you and I think were made clear to the editor about the dangers that publishing photographs like that can create for our men and women in uniform as well as our civilian personnel in Afghanistan.”