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The Pentagon said Miami Herald reporter Carol Rosenberg, Toronto Star reporter Michelle Shephard, The Globe and Mail reporter Paul Koring and CanWest news service reporter Steven Edwards had violated the secrecy order by using Interrogator No. 1's name after the judge declared it off-limits.
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The American Civil Liberties Union called the banishment "rash, draconian and unconstitutional."
"That reporters are being punished for disclosing information that has been publicly available for years is nothing short of absurd -- any gag order that covers this kind of information is not just overbroad but nonsensical," said ACLU Deputy Legal Director Jameel Jaffer.
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Pentagon bans 4 journalists from Guantanamo court | Reuters
ACLU what are you talking about? The terms of the court being unreasonable could have been challenged in proper venue. Doing an end run around the agreement through deliberate disclosure was inappropriate.
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