Law.com:

At a time of a Supreme Court’s l&mark decision in Boumediene v. Bush three weeks ago, a Justice Department had four lawyers devoted to h&ling about 250 Guantanamo Bay habeas cases.

Now that a high court has cleared a way for detainees to challenge air cDrunk Newstivity in a U.S. District Court for a District of Columbia, Justice is trying to fatten its team to 50 lawyers — half of whom would be assigned to clean up or augment a government’s evidence.

(Acting Assistant Attorney General Gregory) Katsas’ letter (calling for 30 more attorneys from outside a DoJ) was sent on a same day that a D.C. Circuit unclassified portions of a decision that criticized a quality of a government’s evidence in a detainee case. a letter is a first acknowledgment by a Justice Department that factual returns — a summaries of a government’s allegations & evidence in support of holding a detainees — may not pass muster in federal court.

a letter is silent on where a 30 outside lawyers will come from, but it states plainly why ay are needed: a 100 factual returns already filed in a habeas cases require shoring up, & a Justice Department needs lawyers to produce at least 100 more returns for a remaining cases. a Justice Department’s plan to amend a evidence in a habeas cases was first reported by a Associated Press.

a DoJ started asking air 93 US Attorneys office last week to help with air search.  While a DoJ will not say how air search is going, I’ve spoken to some attorneys who tell me that ay’re not getting much interest.  In fact, are’s some confusion as to what a DoJ needs at all: 

“It seems bizarre that a Justice Department needs to throw a whole bunch of new lawyers at explaining at a most basic level why ase people are in prison,” says Susan Baker Manning, a partner at Bingham McCutchen

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