Posted on 02/23/2006 5:58:46 PM PST by pitinkie
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - 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.
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.
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Rakoff, Jed Saul
Born 1943 in Philadelphia, PA
Federal Judicial Service:
U. S. District Court, Southern District of New York
Nominated by William J. Clinton on October 11, 1995,
Type - "R" at the beginning of his name is really a "J".
Appeal.
There ain't no way. The Democrats and the judges they appoint undermine the country every chance they get.
"No"
Would it be asking too much to have the
Barrett report, unredacted, released also? I thought not.
DoJ didn't appeal the decision and apparantly is willing to go along with the order.
LOL
This is so disgusting..darn AP! They are so proud of it!
"On Jan. 23, Rakoff ordered the military to turn over uncensored copies of transcripts and other documents from 317 military hearings for detainees at the prison camp. There were another 241 detainees who refused to participate in the Combatant Status Review Tribunals and the Defense Department said no transcripts exist of those hearings."
Evidently, these transcripts are of the Tribunals and not of interrogations, etc. Probably not a lot of information there.
Figures it is a Clinton appointee.
This has to go to SCOTUS, soon as possible.
War detainees are just that WAR DETAINEES.
The few that have been released have a large percentage of coming back to haunt us.
Hey, Rakoff, make us!
Maybe not a lot of information but between the MSM, liberal Dimocraps and gutless Republicans, this will become a full blown political expose, it's Bush's fault, corruption at the highest levels, physical abuse, violation of the Geneva conventions, cruelty to animals and racist, yada, yada. I can see/hear it now.
The government does not want to disclose the names of those it imprisons, and certainly not to associate prisoner status with "held at" information. Those details can be used to object to the incarceration. The alternative is that friends and family are reduced to filing missing persons reports, rather than have the information necessary to support filing a petition for a writ of habeas corpus with a court.
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The Defense Department earlier released transcripts after the AP filed suit under the Freedom of Information Act, but the names and other details of detainees were blacked out.
The Defense Department said it would obey the judge's order.
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Smells like an ACLU FOIA request, again. Again it seems as though the ACLU and the courts are out to sabotage the War on Terror.
Puerto Rico? a little judge shopping, I see.
These bozo judges could care less whether we might someday turn some of these folks and send them back out to work for us. If we release the names, then AQ will know who to look out for.
Eventually "W", and his successors, are going to have to make room in Gitmo for a bunch of these people.
Since when was the constitution changed to have the Military report to the Judicial branch? Did I oversleep and miss a constitution rewrite again?
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