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Judge Faces Major Challenge to Government Authority Over Gitmo Detainee

I’d bet that Judge Ellen Huvelle of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., is really mad now.
After telling the government last week that it has “no evidence” supporting its case against Mohammed Jawad — the Afghan teenager arrested for allegedly throwing a hand grenade at U.S. soldiers, tortured, then transferred to Guantanamo Bay where [...]


9-11 Detainees Hold Off on Guilty Pleas

As Spencer just noted, it’s yet another day of strange and tumultuous proceedings, the five detainees charged with planning the 9/11 attacks withdrew their initial attempt to plead guilty before the Guantanamo military commission. Although all five detainees this morning sent a letter to the judge indicating they wanted to plead guilty, later in [...]