The Military's compelling reason for censoring press photographs

If this explanation/excuse from the U.S. military for destroying an AP photographer's pictures of the site of the massacre yesterday in Afghanistan makes any sense to you, you're way ahead of me:

The journalists had gone beyond a security perimeter and had been asked to remove their images to "protect the integrity of the investigation," he said, adding that the scene may have been altered before they arrived.

The concern had been that the "photographers would not accurately represent what the scene looked like immediately after the ambush," Mitchell said.

That excuse could be used to justify destroying almost any photograph of anything.