WASHINGTON — For years, U.S. officials’ ability to share information about Americans held in hostile foreign nations was tied to a permission form that detainees often weren’t able to sign — a bureaucratic impasse that compounded family distress and at times complicated their situations. Under a 1974 law known as…Read More
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