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Justice Department May Seek To Restrain DTA Review: Lyle Denniston reported at SCOTUSblog yesterday that the Justice Department is considering asking the Supreme Court to curb the authority of the federal appeals court to review military decisions to hold the Guantanamo Bay detainees. The Solicitor General must approve the plans before the Justice Department will go forward. According to Denniston, the Justice Department is attempting to block the appeals court's authority to review the information that intelligence agencies have gathered on the detainees. After the D.C. Circuit Court reinstated Bismullah v. Gates (06-1197) on Monday, the Circuit Court claims it has a right to access all the information in the files. The government claims it does not...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on August 28, 2008 (boomark / email).