Judge orders WH to open Iraq records
Suggesting the government was acting as if it had something to hide, federal judge Alvin Hellerstein Wednesday gave Washington one month to release records related to the treatment of prisoners in Iraq.
"Increasingly, the administration's response to requests has been to stonewall or delay as long as possible until documents are forced out of them by a court," said ACLU lawyer Jameel Jaffer. "Bets on how lomg it'll take them to appeal?"
- from the AP, mostly.
September 15, 2004
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