U.S. seeks to escalate detainee delay dispute
Monday, September 15th, 2008 8:11 pm Lyle Denniston
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Seeking to head off court-imposed punishment for failing to meet deadlines for filings in Guantanamo Bay detainee cases, the Justice Department on Monday sought to raise the stakes, foreseeing two potential threats to national security if it is sanctioned. ...
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The core of this new dispute is the simple one of meeting deadlines — in fact, deadlines that the government sought, over detainees’ objections that they were too generous. The government has conceded it has not been able to meet them, and it is seeking relaxation of them until it can try to catch up.
But it has become increasingly apparent that the underlying controversy is over classified information — how much of it there is, who gets to see it, what process should be used to prepare it for court review, what effect will it have on continued detention of prisoners.
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