Related: 9/11 judge and prosecutors should step down over 'destroyed evidence', defense demandsThe accusation comes in a 10 May defense filing that the military commissions have recently unsealed. The current military commission is the second Mohammed and his co-defendants face. The judge overseeing the premiere military tribunal at Guantánamo Bay effectively conspired with the prosecution to destroy evidence relevant to defending the accused architect of the 9/11 attacks, according to a scathing court document. Pohl’s reversal of course was “the result of secret communications between the government and Judge Pohl, which he conducted without the knowledge of defense counsel”, the motion asserts. “Remember, a main reason they couldn’t have this [trial] in federal court was that it would have been such a circus.

Source: The Guardian May 31, 2016 17:15 UTC