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Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Plea Deal Falls Apart for Accused 9/11 Masterminds by On August 2, 2024, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin revoked a plea agreement that military lawyers reached with three high-profile detainees accused in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. As a result, they will soon mark 22 years of confinement …
Filing • May 21, 2024
Human Rights Defense Center v. U.S. Dep’t of Justice, WA, Order on Summary Judgment, FOIA, 2024 Case 2:20-cv-00674-JHC Document 60 Filed 05/21/24 Page 1 of 31 1 2 3 4 5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE 6 7 8 HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, 9 10 …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
Filed under: Torture, Privileges
SCOTUS Lets “State Secrets” Privilege Bar CIA Contractor Testimony About Torture Already Publicly Known by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson Saying that “sometimes information that has entered the public domain may nonetheless fall within the scope of the state secrets privilege,” the U.S. Supreme Court agreed with Department of Justice …
Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022
New Florida Law Shrouds Executions in Secrecy by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss On May 12, 2022, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed HB 873, “providing an exemption from public records requirements for information or records that identify or could reasonably lead to the identification of any person or …