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Guantánamo Judge Approves Retroactive Censorship

  • Marc Greenberg
  • Oct 18, 2016
  • 1 min read

The 9/11 trial judge has ruled that government censors can retroactively seal public war court testimony, saying state secrets sometimes slip through Camp Justice’s special national security screening system. In doing so, Army Col. James L. Pohl, the judge, rejected a challenge brought last year by 17 news organizations to a Pentagon transcript of an Oct. 30, 2015, hearing that blacked out swaths of open-court testimony. “Given the scope of classified...MORE

 
 
 

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