U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff (Southern District of NY) believes the Government misled him in the case of Abdallah Higazy, the Egyptian who was detained for 30 days after the FBI arrested him alleging that an aviation radio was found in his hotel room overlooking the World Trade Center. Turns out, a pilot later acknowledged the radio belonged to him and a security guard, who had claimed to have found the radio in Higazy's room safe, recanted his story.

Today Judge Rakoff ordered the release of more than 100 pages of court documents in the case.

At a hearing on March 18, Judge Rakoff expressed concern over misleading statements by a prosecutor about a supposed confession by Higazy, made during a polygraph test. The confession was false. Hizazy says the FBI extracted the confession by making" veiled threats" against his family in Egypt.

Charges against Hizazy were ultimately dismissed.