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

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 Culture Wars, asked me whatever happened to that promise [...]


Obama Administration Still Fighting Release of Torture Evidence

This case has dropped a off the radar screen lately, but Bob Egelko at the San Francisco Chronicle today reminds us that the Obama administration is still fighting on three different fronts release of information that would likely show that U.S. officials tortured British former Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed.
Mohamed is one of the plaintiffs in [...]


Torture Case Tests Obama Secrecy Policy

A case involving CIA black sites, Boeing and torture victims sets up the first real-world example of the Obama administration’s take on national security.