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27 Oct 2008, 8:56 am
(AP/Susan Walsh) The fate of Thomas Hartmann, the Pentagon official who’s been overseeing Gitmo’s military commissions, turned south at least a year ago. [read post]
25 Oct 2008, 3:24 am
The Pentagon gets it first. [read post]
24 Oct 2008, 2:28 pm
  The Circuit Court itself, the brief noted, had repeatedly remarked that the Pentagon has not followed its own regulations on detainee status. [read post]
23 Oct 2008, 10:11 am
[JURIST] The US Department of Defense [official website] announced Wednesday that it has filed new war crimes charges against two Kuwaiti men held at the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
22 Oct 2008, 8:34 pm
Judge Leon, who is moving on what he has called a “compressed”  schedule to decide the two dozen Guantanamo Bay habeas cases in his Court, told the Justice Department and Pentagon two months ago that if  the  legal basis for detaining any prisoner was the status of “enemy combatant,” then “the Government must provide the definition of enemy combatant upon which it relies. [read post]
22 Oct 2008, 1:34 pm
"Pentagon dismisses terror charges for 5 Guantanamo detainees; After another shake-up at the Pentagon office overseeing the war court, the administration withdrew, for now, war crimes charges against five men at Guantanamo": Carol Rosenberg has this article today in The Miami Herald. [read post]
22 Oct 2008, 10:07 am
[JURIST] The US Department of Defense announced Tuesday that the Office of Military Commissions Convening Authority has dismissed charges without prejudice [press release] against five Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees. [read post]
22 Oct 2008, 8:39 am
Yesterday, the Pentagon dismissed war crimes charges in the cases of five detainees. [read post]
21 Oct 2008, 5:41 pm
The Pentagon official in charge of prosecutions at Guantanamo on Tuesday dismissed war-charges against five detainees, the latest setback to the government's military commission system. [read post]
21 Oct 2008, 2:47 am
  Although the Pentagon has decided not to make further claims that the 17 are enemies, the Justice Department in court filings has argued that they remain dangerous and that their move to the U.S. would pose a special risk. [read post]
20 Oct 2008, 2:49 pm
More examples: Nearly half of the 6 million American voters living abroad3 never received their ballots — or received them too late to vote4 — after the Pentagon unaccountably shut down a state-of-the-art Web site used to file overseas registrations5. [read post]
20 Oct 2008, 1:29 pm
Capitol, the Pentagon, a judge’s home and killed Americans. [read post]
20 Oct 2008, 8:42 am
That proposal has been resisted by the Pentagon. [read post]
19 Oct 2008, 8:01 pm
  (Thanks to Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal for obtaining release of the documents by the Pentagon. [read post]
17 Oct 2008, 8:55 pm
The Maryland Daily Record reports that federal prosecutors have filed a civil lawsuit against a Navy commander from Severna Park who was granted a Purple Heart and was compensated for a partial permanent disability for injuries he claimed he received when a plane crashed into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. [read post]
17 Oct 2008, 1:48 am
[JURIST] The US Defense Department (DOD) [official website] has released a revised directive [PDF text] mandating military supervision of intelligence interrogations and questioning conducted by other US government agencies, foreign governments and contractors. [read post]
16 Oct 2008, 11:19 pm
Gates in “conditional contempt” because the Pentagon has not carried out a June 20 Circuit Court ruling that Parhat is not an “enemy combatant” and is entitled to be released or transferred out of Guantanamo. [read post]
16 Oct 2008, 10:31 pm
Just in time for Halloween, this is scary:"Iraq would have the first crack at prosecuting American troops and Pentagon contractors accused of major, premeditated crimes committed outside U.S. bases and when they were off duty under a draft security pact governing military operations in the country, Iraqi officials said Wednesday. [read post]