The general overseeing Guantánamo war court defense teams has issued an order forbidding his staff to sleep at the Camp Justice compound following a new health risk assessment on cancer-causing agents there.

Marine Brig. Gen. John Baker issued the order over the weekend in an email obtained by the Miami Herald. It just so happens that the Sept. 11 judge, for unrelated reasons, canceled this week’s pretrial hearing, meaning few if any staff are at the crude compound built atop an obsolete airstrip at the remote U.S. Navy base in Cuba. ...

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