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The White House is denying that its decision on where prosecute Sept. 11 architect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is imminent, according to a report in The New York Times.
President Obama's advisers are poised to announce a recommendation to reverse course on Attorney General Eric Holder's plan to try the admitted architect of the 9/11 attacks in federal court and instead prosecute Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a military commission, The Washington Postreported on Friday.
In an opinion that was unsealed on Wednesday, a New York federal judge ruled last month that prosecutors must produce Justice Department memos in a high-profile terrorism case, the New York Law Journalreported.
The Associated Press and Newsday have asked a federal judge to unseal a plea agreement between prosecutors and a Colorado airport shuttle driver who pleaded guilty to terrorism charges earlier this week, The Los Angeles Timesreported.
The CIA released a preliminary round of previously classified documents containing information on enhanced interrogation techniques to watchdog group Judicial Watch on Tuesday, the organization said in a press release.
A terrorism suspect was arrested, arraigned and indicted on a felony charge but the proceedings were closed and the sealed court docket lists him only as John Doe, The New York Timesreported.
The American Civil Liberties Union sued the Justice Department on Friday over an unfulfilled public records request that sought a report examining possible ethics violations committed by the attorneys who authored the now infamous Bush administration torture memorandums.
The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. this week decided to exclude the public from oral arguments concerning the legality of military detentions, The Blog of Legal Timesreports.
Faxing a FOIA appeal to the wrong number proved costly to The Pearl Project, which is seeking information about the 2002 killing of journalist Daniel Pearl, and received a court setback on Thursday.
The public has a right to know the details of pending charges and the government's evidence against Guantanamo Bay detainees who are challenging their detention, a federal judge ruled on Monday.
