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9/11 Suspects to Use Trial to Explain Themselves

By | 11.23.09 | 8:49 am

Since Attorney General Eric Holder announced the alleged masterminds of the 9/11 attacks would be tried in New York, there’s been much speculation about whether they’ll plead guilty, as some have suggested they would before military commissions, or insist on a trial and put on a defense.

Scott Fenstermaker, a More…

Portugal to Take Two Guantanamo Prisoners; United States, None

By | 08.14.09 | 12:17 pm

Portugal has agreed to take two Syrians held at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Al Jazeera reported yesterday. The deal was apparently reached last week, but didn’t get a whole lot of attention.

Portugal is the third European Union country to accept Guantanamo prisoners More…

Whatever Happened to That New Justice Department Policy on ‘State Secrets’?

By | 08.11.09 | 8:58 am

After my post yesterday updating the status of the Obama administration’s ongoing efforts to conceal evidence that British resident and former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Binyam Mohamed was tortured, Ed Brayton, a fellow with the Center for Independent Media and author of the blog Dispatches from the More…

DOJ Responds to Claim That Witnesses in Jawad Case Were Paid by U.S.

By | 07.31.09 | 5:27 pm

In my last post on the “eyewitness evidence” the government claims it has against Mohammed Jawad, the Afghan who just won his habeas corpus case, I noted that military defense lawyer Eric Montalvo said that in his investigation of the Jawad case, he learned that the government’s More…