Note: At NBC News we have something called the hot file where we file update news stories throughout the day that the entire news division has access to. I easily get 100-200 hot notes a day. Here’s what I filed at the end of Omar Khadr’s hearing today:
Judge Pat Parish denied the defense’s motion to suppress the Omar Khadr “bombmaking ” video found at the sight of the 2002 firefight where Khadr was wounded. Parish also denied the motion to suppress Khadr’s confessions made to various interrogators since he was apprehended in 2002.
This means, what some consider, a particularly damning video of Omar Khadr being instructed on how to make and plant IED’s by known members of Al Qaeda will be put into evidence. This is the video that CBS aired parts of in 2007. http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=3518748n&tag=related;photovideo
(Note: We have put in a request for the DOD to release this video to the media.)
This also means that the judge will allow any statements or confessions Khadr made while in custody in Bagram or Guantanamo.
The military commissions case of United States of America v. Omar Ahmed Khadr will begin Tuesday morning at 9amET