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Defense Department Threatens Gitmo Lawyer With Jail for Writing to President Obama

By | 04.06.09 | 2:33 pm

This story, which was reported in The Guardian and confirmed by publicly filed court documents, is one of the stranger means the Obama administration has used thus far to keep quiet the sins of its predecessor.

As I’ve written before, lawyers representing the ex-Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed have been More…

CIA Admits Destroying Nearly 100 Interrogation Tapes

By | 03.02.09 | 1:09 pm

The CIA today acknowledged in a pending Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that it destroyed 92 tapes of harsh interrogations of detainees related to the “war on terror”.

The American Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit seeking the information more than five years ago, and more than More…