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Pentagon ordered to identify detainee abuse cases
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Sep 20, 8:55 PM (ET)

By Christine Kearney

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge ordered the Pentagon on Wednesday to identify some detainees who say they were abused by U.S. military personnel at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff rejected arguments by the Defense Department that it needed to black out the names and other identifying information of detainees to protect their privacy and he ordered the redactions removed within a week.

The Associated Press filed a lawsuit last year seeking the detainees' names and transcripts of U.S. military hearings.

In response to a ruling in the case earlier this year, the Pentagon released all the names of detainees being held at the naval base and the transcripts, but blocked which names matched eight files of disciplinary actions taken against Defense Department personnel for detainee abuse.

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