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Vanishing files delay Guantanamo hearings in 9/11 case
Reuters ^ | 4-17-2013 | Jane Sutton

Posted on 04/17/2013 7:36:31 PM PDT by haffast

MIAMI (Reuters) - Guantanamo war crimes prosecutions of five prisoners charged with plotting the September 11 hijacked planes attacks will be delayed by two months because of lost files caused by Pentagon computer problems, U.S. military officials said on Wednesday.

A weeklong pretrial hearing had been set to begin on Monday in the death penalty case against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the attacks, and four alleged co-conspirators.

The judge overseeing the case postponed the hearing until June 17 at the request of defense lawyers who said three to four weeks' worth of their confidential work files had disappeared from Pentagon computer systems.

Prosecutors opposed the delay, but the judge, Army Colonel James Pohl, said a postponement was "in the interest of justice" under the circumstances.

A near-catastrophic server failure caused both defense lawyers and prosecutors to lose documents, said Army Lieutenant Colonel Todd Breasseale, a Pentagon spokesman.

Backup servers failed and the problem was further complicated because lawyers use one secure computer system in their Washington-area offices and another in their offices at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, he said.

The data disappeared as technicians tried to set up a means of automatically saving new documents and updates on both systems.

Pohl had already delayed pretrial hearings in another Guantanamo case for the same reason. Hearings had been scheduled this week in the case against Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, who is charged with masterminding a bomb attack that killed 17 sailors aboard the USS Cole in 2000, but were postponed to June 11.

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2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013...sequester poof.

1 posted on 04/17/2013 7:36:31 PM PDT by haffast
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To: haffast
How convenient.
2 posted on 04/17/2013 7:37:55 PM PDT by KittenClaws (You may have to fight a battle more than once in order to win it." - Margaret Thatcher)
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To: KittenClaws

I don’t buy this story.

Perhaps they should subscribe to “Mosey” backup systems or one like that. Cheaper than what they have now that doesn’t work.

I won’t even go into other offsite data warehouses.


3 posted on 04/18/2013 12:09:44 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: haffast

Hearing in Cole Attack Is Delayed Again, This Time by E-mail Security Issue (Al Nashiri)
The New York Times ^ | April 11, 2013 | CHARLIE SAVAGE
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3014065/posts?page=1


4 posted on 04/30/2013 10:35:12 AM PDT by haffast (Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. -Abe Lincoln)
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To: haffast

bump...

seems this whole administration has server trouble


5 posted on 03/22/2015 5:11:55 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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