The prominent Boston law firm of Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Halet, and Dorr has filed a historic suit in Federal District Court on behalf of 6 Algerian detainees, who were captured in Bosnia and are still being held in Guantanamo.
The firm filed suit after repeated requests for information under the Freedom of Information Acts, were ignored.
One of the detainees said a beating by guards left his face partially paralyzed, and one of his fingers broken.
The complaint will ask the judge, to order the military to hand over documents about its treatment of the 6 detainees, in Guantanamo.
This is the first FOIA lawsuit in connection with detention challenges, marking a new tactic in piercing the "veil of secrecy" that surrounds the "enemy combatants" at the prison.
The US government brought the 6 detainees to Guantanamo after the Highest Bosnian court released them, due to "lack of evidence."
So, it looks as though democracy is, at long last, on its way to Guantanamo.
However, I do believe it will come home to" roost."