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On Tuesday U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina ordered the release of 17 Chinese Uighur Muslims from Guantánamo Bay and most likely caused a near-riot in the White House. His order highlights the increasingly muddled nature of the facility's existence and, if carried out, holds the potential for an avalanche of bad publicity at a very bad time for the President. Read more…

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U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled this week that the White House's Office of Administration (OA) does not have to turn over documents relating to the disappearance of potentially millions of emails. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) had filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and in her decision Kollar-Kotelly wrote "the Court concludes that OA is not an agency subject to the FOIA". CREW plans to appeal. Read more…