The government is now 0-5 in its efforts to admit the so-called clean team confessions to the capital cases at Guantánamo Bay.

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A plea hearing revealed a far larger pattern of fraud against the government, while keeping some key secrets still hidden.

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Prosecutors have long considered the defendants’ admissions during interrogations in 2007 to be their best evidence.

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