U.S. Justice Department lawyers wanted a judge to review secret information supporting the government’s effort to keep an alleged member of an al-Queda bomb squad locked up at the Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, naval base.

Citing the prisoner’s ever changing stories, Judge Richard Leon of U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in November 2010 ruled the continued detention was lawful. Leon, however, declined to take account of the DOJ evidence that was provided for his exclusive review.