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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…

Obama Administration Still Fighting Release of Torture Evidence

By | 08.10.09 | 1:03 pm

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 More…

Torture Case Tests Obama Secrecy Policy

By | 01.26.09 | 6:05 am

President Obama’s sweeping reversals of torture and state secret policies are about to face an early test.

After Obama issued an executive order and two presidential memoranda last week proclaiming a new transparency in the workings of the federal government, advocates for open government were thrilled.

“That was an order More…