AP Pentagon Told to Release Gitmo Transcripts

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/guantanamo_ap_lawsuit;_ylt=AoT4KKHTU_LrOnKsPBeNu2Gs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--
Pentagon Told to Release Gitmo Transcripts

By BEN FOX, Associated Press Writer 50 minutes ago

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A federal judge ordered the
Pentagon on Thursday to release the identities of hundreds of detainees at Guantanamo Bay to The Associated Press, a move which would force the government to break its secrecy and reveal the most comprehensive list yet of those who have been imprisoned there.


Some of the hundreds of detainees in the war on terror being held at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been held as long as four years. Only a handful have been officially identified.

U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff in New York ordered the Defense Department to release uncensored transcripts of detainee hearings, which contain the names of detainees in custody and those who have been held and later released. Previously released documents have had identities and other details blacked out.

The judge ordered the government to hand over the documents by March 3 after the Defense Department said Wednesday it would not appeal his earlier ruling in the lawsuit filed by the AP.

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1. The Defense Department said it would obey the judge's order.

The Defense Department said it would obey the judge's order.

"The DOD will be complying with the judge's decision in this matter," said Navy Lt. Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon, a Pentagon spokesman.

Law experts said the case has wide-ranging implications.

"The government has tried to maintain Guantanamo as a black hole since they opened it," said Jonathan Hafetz of the New York University School of Law. "This is bringing it within the mainstream of the justice system and says we're not going to have secret detentions at Guantanamo."

In his ruling last month, Rakoff rejected government arguments that releasing the detainees' names from 558 transcripts should be kept secret to protect their privacy and their families, friends and associates from embarrassment and retaliation.

[electropop]

2. OMFG. This is HUGH!!?111!!

Wonder how they'll dodge it this time?

[AlCzervik]

3. my guess is that they have a very big paper shredder and will release

only what it wants to and claim they lost the rest.

[dubya_dubya_III]

6. Just like the Able Danger coverup

Ooops! The general's dog ate them

[ConcernedCanuk]

5. "Wonder how they'll dodge it this time?" - pretty simple really

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Seeing as the "list" will be made up by the military

The "names" probably will not be the real ones belonging to the prisoners

Just start pulling up names from death certificates who have no known relatives

yeah

I DO think this administration is evil enough to do just that . .

Then many of them will be "released"

never to be heard from again . .

"disappeared" so to speak . .

[fasttense]

8. Here is an AOL poll on it. It is split right now

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20060223202009990005&ncid=NWS00010000000001

Should the U.S. close the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay?
Yes 47%
No 47%
Undecided 6%
Total Votes: 51,014

[HuffleClaw]

4. they've been told this before and simply ignored it.

i see no reason why they will now.

[dubya_dubya_III]

7. Well you can't say we weren't warned...

"...avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." -- George Washington