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17 Jan 2009, 8:39 pm
The Pentagon announced today it released six detainees from Guantanamo. [read post]
17 Jan 2009, 2:04 am
[JURIST] A military judge Friday rejected a motion [text, PDF] by the Pentagon's chief prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] to delay the military commission [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] hearing of the five detainees being held as 9/11 conspirators [JURIST news archive], set for Monday. [read post]
16 Jan 2009, 8:00 pm
His advisers are considering adding a classified loophole to the rules that could allow the CIA to use some interrogation methods not specifically authorized by the Pentagon, the officials said, although the intent is not to use that as an opening for possible use of waterboarding. [read post]
16 Jan 2009, 6:13 pm
Jess Bravin, the Journal’s Supreme Court reporter who’s been covering the legal proceedings in Guantanamo, reports: The Pentagon’s chief Guantanamo defense counsel asked the Bush administration to rescind charges against all 21 detainees facing trial before military commissions. [read post]
16 Jan 2009, 7:22 am
See, it turns out that even senior officials at the Pentagon admit we tortured at least one Guantánamo detainee:"The senior Pentagon official in the Bush administration's system for prosecuting detainees said in a published interview that she had concluded that interrogators had tortured a Guantánamo detainee . . . . [read post]
16 Jan 2009, 6:31 am
You've probably read the claims by the Defense Department that 61 of the released Guantanamo detainees have returned to terrorism. [read post]
15 Jan 2009, 6:50 pm
I have offered some comments about the story at The Guardian's website.There are many things that make the interview extremely important, including Crawford's own identity as a "lifelong Republican" who has obviously worked many years within the Pentagon and its environs. [read post]
15 Jan 2009, 3:04 am
She led the Washington Post for over two decades, including the period in which the paper published the Pentagon Papers, leading to the Watergate scandal. [read post]
15 Jan 2009, 2:31 am
Men in uniforms and men standing on White House and Pentagon podiums, time after time said categorically that the US does not use torture.The US military, interrogators at Guantánamo, the Bush administration from the president down through his ranks of officials and aides, all hung together in denying the allegations. [read post]
14 Jan 2009, 10:38 am
Today's New York Times contained a revelation that was not, exactly, all that revelatory:The senior Pentagon official in the Bush administration's system for prosecuting detainees said in a published interview that she had concluded that interrogators had tortured a Guantánamo detainee who has sometimes been described as 'the 20th hijacker' in the 2001 terrorist attacks.Official confirmation of [read post]
13 Jan 2009, 4:54 am
Holland of The Associated Press has a report that begins, "Pentagon prosecutors want a federal appeals court to reinstate a young Guantanamo detainee's confession after a military judge, who ruled the man had been tortured, threw it out. [read post]
12 Jan 2009, 7:50 pm
Possible reasons for the increase, according to the Pentagon: Obama's inauguration and the Jan. 11 anniversary of the opening of Gitmo. [read post]
12 Jan 2009, 1:31 am
“Gary McKinnon, the computer hacker facing extradition to the US for hacking into the Pentagon and Nasa systems, could now be prosecuted in Britain. [read post]
11 Jan 2009, 3:24 pm
Gore was only his 14th case before the Supreme Court His wife was on board American Airlines Flight 77 when it crashed into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. [read post]
9 Jan 2009, 8:19 am
There are  the standard reasons for the Pentagon’s decision. [read post]
9 Jan 2009, 7:39 am
Gates, finding that the Pentagon had not justified the continued confinement of Huzaifa Parhat, a Guantanamo prisoner. [read post]