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2 Jul 2008, 11:49 pm
  If the Justice Department and Pentagon chose, they could file documents seeking to justify continued detention of those prisoners first in the  cases before Judge Leon, in hopes of getting an early precedent perhaps favorable to their view of detainees’ rights. [read post]
2 Jul 2008, 1:45 pm by Marty Lederman
It was not very difficult, or outside their ordinary judicial function, for this panel of judges to determine that the Pentagon had failed to present any credible evidence on even the two easiest prongs of the Pentagon's own theory of why Parhat was detainable-that the ETIM is functionally a part of the Taliban, and that the ETIM has engaged in hostilities against the United States and its coalition partners. [read post]
2 Jul 2008, 1:45 pm by Marty Lederman
It was not very difficult, or outside their ordinary judicial function, for this panel of judges to determine that the Pentagon had failed to present any credible evidence on even the two easiest prongs of the Pentagon's own theory of why Parhat was detainable-that the ETIM is functionally a part of the Taliban, and that the ETIM has engaged in hostilities against the United States and its coalition partners. [read post]
2 Jul 2008, 1:16 pm
Indeed, the Pentagon's Combatant Status Review Tribunal did not even find him to be "an individual who was part of or supporting Taliban or al Qaida forces. [read post]
2 Jul 2008, 12:24 am
Meanwhile, an attorney for a detainee facing a war crimes trial at Guantanamo said he will file a challenge to try to stop those proceedings before a Pentagon military commission at the base on the island of Cuba. [read post]
1 Jul 2008, 7:19 pm
Circuit is closely scrutinizing the Pentagon's detention decisions. [read post]
1 Jul 2008, 12:07 pm
Five Democratic Senators sent Defense Secretary Robert Gates a letter complaining about the Pentagon's refusal to clean up contaminated military bases. [read post]
1 Jul 2008, 8:44 am
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the National Science Foundation has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Dept. of Defense to work together supporting social science research of interest to the Pentagon. [read post]
30 Jun 2008, 5:15 pm
While things are looking up for Huzaifa Parhat, another Gitmo resident, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi of Yemeni descent, got some tough news today when the Pentagon said it’s charging Nashiri with “organizing and directing” the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, and will seek the death penalty. [read post]
30 Jun 2008, 4:57 pm
Circuit makes public a redacted version of its recent ruling that overturned the Pentagon's classification of a Guantanamo detainee as an enemy combatant: The redacted ruling, made public today, can be accessed here. [read post]
30 Jun 2008, 4:01 pm
In a significant rebuff of Pentagon policy on detainees, the D.C. [read post]
30 Jun 2008, 8:29 am
Here we are nearly seven years after the destruction of the World Trade Center and damage to the Pentagon. [read post]
28 Jun 2008, 3:33 pm
WSJ, sub. req'd: "In a remarkable shift, Afghanistan, where U.S. officials were once confident of victory, is now rivaling Iraq... [read post]
28 Jun 2008, 12:58 pm
  The Pentagon’s opposition filing gave its view of the very limited scope of Boumediene. [read post]
27 Jun 2008, 7:55 pm
Keith Allred wrote in a decision released by the Pentagon Friday that the trial of Salim Hamdan, a Yemeni, would open at the remote base on July 21, as scheduled. [read post]
26 Jun 2008, 9:28 pm
But the two classmates inspiring the most jealousy this summer include one who is working at the Pentagon and got to meet Justice Alito, and another who is working for a movie studio and got to eat lunch next to George Clooney. [read post]
26 Jun 2008, 8:42 am
Most important is that OLC itself, when John was there, had advised the Pentagon that the Fourth Geneva Convention did not protect "unlawful combatants," which includes most if not all of the insurgents in Iraq. [read post]
25 Jun 2008, 6:21 pm
  In the Bismullah case, the Circuit Court had laid down rules on the information the Pentagon must supply to that Court as it reviews military decisions to hold prisoners at Guantanamo as “enemy combatants. [read post]
24 Jun 2008, 9:32 pm
Beginning to remind me of the lion who escaped from the Washington Zoo--he stayed loose because he went to the Pentagon and ate a general a day and nobody ever missed them. [read post]
24 Jun 2008, 5:11 pm
The Pentagon has a much different definition of "capable" and "ready. [read post]