Judge finds Pentagon in contempt in Gitmo case
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday ruled the Defense Department in disregard of court for failing to videotape the testimony of a Guantanamo Bay detainee so that the persons and the news media could see it.
U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler is demanding a detailed explanation of why the Pentagon failed to follow her directions and tape the testimony of Mohammed Al-Adahi of Yemen. He testified June 23 in a challenge to his doubtful detention at the prison in Cuba.
In invite papers, the sway said the Defense Department without intention failed to instruct the command at Guantanamo Bay to videotape the proceedings.
In August, Kessler ordered the government to “take altogether necessary and take to one’s self diplomatic steps” to facilitate Al-Adahi’session release. The government is appealing Kessler’s decision.
The judge said she wanted the testimony videotaped so as plenteous of it as possible could be on these terms to the general and the recent accounts media.
Al-Adahi testified that he attended al-Qaida’s Al Farouq training camp in quest of seven to 10 days out of curiosity and was expelled against disobeying rules.
Al-Adahi readily acknowledged having met Osama bunker Laden on two occasions and admitted that perchance his relatives were bodyguards and impassioned followers of bin Laden, the referee wrote in her ruling in August.
The judge said, however, that “sensational and compelling as it may appear,” that does not enact trusty evidence to justify the government detaining Al-Adahi, who has been held at Guantanamo Bay because 2002.
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