LONDON—(ENEWSPF)—3 October 2014. A federal judge has refused to hold the first-ever trial of prisoner abuse at Guantánamo Bay behind closed doors, issuing a sharply-worded order rejecting the Obama Administration’s request for secrecy.
Judge Gladys Kessler found the Administration’s request “deeply troubling,” noted that it “appears to have deliberately made on short notice”, and admonished the Justice Department that “one of the strongest pillars of our system of justice in the United States is the presumption that all…
