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State Department still says cables WikiLeaks released last year are classified

The Obama administration is still insisting that cables WikiLeaks released last year are classified even though the cables were released by the State Department in compliance with a Freedom of Information Act request. The classified information concerned targeted killings, detention at Guantanamo, torture and rendition. -db From a commentary for the American Civil Liberties Union, December 7, 2011, by Nathan Freed Wessler and Anna Estevao. Full story  

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Pentagon bans reporters from covering Guantanamo hearings

The Pentagon banned four reports from covering military commissions at Guantanamo on the grounds that they violated prohibitions on publishing the name of a former Army interrogator who was a witness at a hearing. -db McClatchy Newspapers May 6, 2010 By Nancy A. Youssef WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Pentagon Thursday banned four reporters, including one from McClatchy Newspapers, from covering future military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, charging that they’d violated ground rules by publishing

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