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Nancy Youssef, McClatchy Newspapers: "The Pentagon Thursday banned four reporters, including one from McClatchy Newspapers, from covering future military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, charging that they'd violated ground rules by publishing the name of a former Army interrogator who was a witness at a hearing there this week."

http://www.truthout.org/pentagon-bans-reporters-from-covering-guantanamo-military-commissions59251



At Guantanamo, Even Soldiers are Stripped of Their Legal Rights

Andy Worthington, Truthout: "In the habeas corpus petitions submitted by prisoners at Guantanamo, district court judges have, to date, ruled in 34 out of 47 cases that the government has failed to demonstrate that the men in question had any meaningful connection to either al-Qaeda or the Taliban."

http://www.truthout.org/guant%C3%A1namo-and-habeas-corpus-consigning-soldiers-oblivion59337

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ACLU and Other Rights Groups Send Letter Urging Pentagon to Lift Ban on Guantánamo Reporters

http://act.commondreams.org/go/596?akid=55.124981.uhB-eo&t=26



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