Behind the Homefront

A federal judge in Manhattan Thursday said federal agencies must begin producing records on the treatment of detainees and prisoners in Iraq by Aug. 23 to the ACLU and four other watchdog organzitions. The government must produce the records except where exemptions to the Freedom of Information Act apply.

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I wonder how long that list of exemptions is. And of course, there's no way to keep feet from dragging and records from being "lost" or "accidentally destroyed", but I guess this is at least a stab at retaining some sense of justice.

Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainees going before the first military tribunals since World War II are seeking to delay the trials, disqualify a key official, and make public as much of the evidence against their clients as possible.

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CACI International Inc. said Thursday that an internal investigation of its operations in Iraq turned up no evidence that its employees were involved in the abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison, according to reports in today's Washington Post and New York Times. The Arlington, Va., government contractor has been under scrutiny since one of its employees, Steven A. Stefanowicz, was named in an internal Army report made public in April. The report said Stefanowicz, an interrogator working with the Army, encouraged soldiers to set conditions to facilitate interrogations and said he "clearly knew his instructions equated to physical abuse." CACI said its investigation, conducted by the Washington office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, has not found "credible or tangible" evidence supporting the claims in the report prepared by Army Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba. The findings are based "on a combination of interviewing CACI personnel, obtaining publicly available documents and asking the government for information," CACI spokeswoman Jody Brown said.

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What? That doesn't satisfy you?