What the Government Claims Didn’t Get Videotaped

By: emptywheel Thursday December 10, 2009 7:10 pm

Did the government not produce a videotape of the al-Adahi hearing because the detainee argued so much more effectively than the government?

Obama Administration Held in Contempt for Hiding Gitmo Testimony

By: emptywheel Thursday December 10, 2009 11:59 am

Yesterday, I pointed to this language from the Government’s amicus brief in the Mohawk case. The Executive cannot be expected to persist in withholding information that a court has ordered to be disclosed; to suggest otherwise would be to invite the “unseemly” interbranch conflict that this Court declined to let unfold in Nixon. The government [...]

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