government criminals like to keep their crimes secret. Original Article Navy SEALs say photos endangered their lives Associated Press Mar. 23, 2005 12:00 AM LOS ANGELES - A federal lawsuit filed by Navy SEALs and the wife of a special-forces member claims the Associated Press violated copyright and privacy laws and endangered the servicemen's lives by publishing photographs of them with Iraqi prisoners. The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court in San Diego, seeks unspecified damages. It also asks the court to bar the AP from further use of the photos and to require the news agency to protect the SEALs' identities. It replaces a lawsuit filed in state court in December to add the federal copyright infringement allegations, plaintiffs' attorney James Huston said. "The claims are just as groundless in federal court as they were in state court," Dave Tomlin, the news cooperative's assistant general counsel, said in a statement. "The pictures are of obvious public interest. AP obtained them in a completely proper way and was right to publish them."