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By Christine Kearney, Reuters A Pakistani man who says he was abused in detention after the September 11 attacks can name the FBI director and former U.S. attorney general John Ashcroft in his lawsuit against the government, an appeals court ruled on Thursday. Javaid Iqbal, a Muslim, was held for more than a year at…

By Spencer Ackerman, TPMMuckraker Get ready for more revelations about the extent of the National Security Agency’s post-9/11 warrantless surveillance program. Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff reports that the Senate Judiciary Committee is going to hear testimony from Jack Goldsmith, the former head of Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, a key ally in James Comey’s efforts…