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29 Apr 2009, 10:40 pm by Site Administrator
While riding in the limo, Obama can still work and stay connected safely on his fold-away desktop that includes a laptop with secure Wi-Fi capabilities and a satellite phone with a direct line to the Pentagon and the Vice President. [read post]
25 Apr 2009, 11:32 am
Today's edition of that newspaper also contains articles headlined "In 2002, Military Agency Warned Against 'Torture'; Extreme Duress Could Yield Unreliable Information, It Said"; "Cheney Requests Release of 2 CIA Reports on Interrogations"; and "Pentagon to Release Prisoner Abuse Photos," along with an editorial entitled "Eyes Wide Shut: The Bush administration repeatedly ignored warnings about its detainee interrogation policies. [read post]
25 Apr 2009, 3:58 am
A stellar investigative report in the Washington Post today by Peter Finn and Joby Warrick details:* Warnings in 2002 from the Pentagon against the use of torture to extract confessions; Besides obtaining unreliable information, such methods of interrogation would justify other nations in torturing captured U.S. military;* Patterns of squelching dissent, and suppressing memos that expressed warnings of the downside of whatever the former administration wished to proceed with; * Failing to… [read post]
25 Apr 2009, 12:24 am
The Pentagon seems to think so, which is why it is updating its computer security systems to respond to more sophisticated threats. [read post]
24 Apr 2009, 6:22 pm
The Pentagon and Homeland Security Department are developing contingency plans to send National Guard troops to the U.S. [read post]
24 Apr 2009, 9:31 am
“We will rest our decision on remand,” the panel said, on the Pearson option — looking first to the Pentagon officials’ claims of immunity. [read post]
24 Apr 2009, 2:59 am
"The Pentagon has been asked to see if it can find 200 to 300 reservists. [read post]
20 Apr 2009, 6:47 am
Haynes II, former Pentagon general counsel, who are being sued this week in Spain for the torture of Spanish citizens at Abu Ghraib. [read post]
17 Apr 2009, 1:11 pm
The judge, however, did not order Basardh’s release as a reward for his cooperation, although she did say that the Pentagon may have violated at least the spirit of U.S. laws by not fulfilling promises it had made that his cooperation could improve his situation and perhaps even lead to his release. [read post]
17 Apr 2009, 6:39 am
Partner Stephen Preston, who spent the Clinton years at the Pentagon and the DOJ, will be nominated to be the CIA's general counsel. [read post]
17 Apr 2009, 5:46 am
A sharp salute to Marine Sergeants Tim "Flightline" Harrington and James Bancroft for this heads up:Obama Pentagon Advisor Suggests Radical Plan for Newspaper BailoutAnyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. [read post]
16 Apr 2009, 5:00 pm
 He probably was not the only person angry about Ellsberg; I certainly have been happy about Ellsberg's leak of the Pentagon Papers. [read post]
16 Apr 2009, 7:59 am
Bybee; and Pentagon lawyer William Haynes.Consider This: The PoliticsIn the absence of overwhelming domestic public support for the prosecution of senior governmental officials in a foreign court, it seems highly unlikely that President Obama (or any other president) would consent to extradition. [read post]
14 Apr 2009, 6:59 pm
A liberal is activist on issues where a minority was at risk of being treated unsympathetically by the majority (such as Brown v Board of Education, criminal rights, and the rights of political dissidents) or issues where pathways of democratic change were potentially being blocked (such as the reapportionment cases and the Pentagon Papers). [read post]
11 Apr 2009, 9:01 pm
The Pentagon maintained that no harm to humans would result from the testing of the chemical weapon. [read post]
9 Apr 2009, 2:08 pm
by Kristin Billera Members of the media were permitted to photograph the casket of a U.S. soldier on Sunday after an 18 year ban by the Pentagon on media coverage of war dead was lifted. [read post]