Slow Going For Gitmo Trial Preparations Hoping to charge between 60 and 80 of its 400 Guantanamo Bay detainees, the military has been agressively preparing cases by poring over 40,000 pages of amassed documents. With some prisoners having remained in the facility for over 5 years years without receiving formal charges, Pentagon legal adviser Thomas Hemingway argued that “if they want a faster process, we are going to need additional resources.” (Associated Press)Audit Reveals Problems in Justice Department’s Anti-Terror Stats “Federal prosecutors counted immigration violations, marriage fraud and drug trafficking among anti-terror cases in the four years after 9/11 even though no evidence linked them to terror activity, a Justice Department audit said Tuesday. Overall, nearly all of the terrorism-related statistics on investigations, referrals and cases examined by department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine were either diminished or inflated. ” (Associated Press)
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