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14 May 2008, 6:59 pm
” Those will be preserved, it said, under new orders from Pentagon and intelligence agency officials. [read post]
13 May 2008, 2:15 pm
While the U.S. entered a binding agreement under the protocol to raise the minimum age for recruitment to 17, recruiters still collect the personal information of hundreds of thousands of 16-year-olds in a database for recruitment purposes (the database has been improved slightly to protect student privacy after a lawsuit brought by the NYCLU but still collects information about 16-year-olds including race and ethnicity), students as young as 14 report classroom time being taken by recruiters, and… [read post]
13 May 2008, 11:28 am
Among those detainees is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, whom the Pentagon admitted the government to waterboarding. [read post]
13 May 2008, 9:52 am
When the Pentagon hired goons to repeat its propaganda on national television? [read post]
13 May 2008, 1:38 am
[JURIST] Death penalty charges [JURIST report] against Guantanamo detainees Khalid Sheikh Mohammed [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] and four other men allegedly involved in planning the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on the United States have been confirmed by the Convening Authority [DOD press release] for the US military commissions and sent to defense lawyers, the Miami Herald reported [read post]
12 May 2008, 2:57 am
" Colonel Davis has previously testified that senior Pentagon officials told him just before the 2006 U.S. [read post]
10 May 2008, 8:06 pm
Hartmann of the Air Force Reserve, a senior Pentagon official of the Office of Military Commissions, which runs the war crimes system, because General Hartmann had indicated that political considerations should be brought to bear on prosecution decisions, and because Hartmann had also pressed for the introduction of evidence that had been obtained by use of waterboarding and other forms of torture and cruel treatment. [read post]
10 May 2008, 1:28 pm
Thomas Hartmann [Air Force Link profile], a top Pentagon legal adviser on the Guantanamo military commission trials, is ineligible to participate in the first military commission trial of a detainee because he is too closely associated with the prosecution, the New York Times reported Saturday. [read post]
9 May 2008, 10:10 am
And the Pentagon is perfectly willing to proceed with hearings for other detainees; the notion that the Supreme Court cowed the Pentagon is too strong to explain such differences. [read post]
9 May 2008, 8:56 am
(The government motion to send his Circuit Court case back to the Pentagon can be downloaded here.) [read post]
9 May 2008, 7:11 am
[JURIST] The US Department of Justice indicated Thursday that the Pentagon will review the "enemy combatant" status of Afghan Guantanamo detainee and US federal court litigant Haji Bismullah [JURIST news archives] in light of what was referred to as "new evidence," according to SCOTUSblog. [read post]
9 May 2008, 5:07 am
Of the 500 inmates who have been released from the detention facility, Gates said Pentagon data shows that between 5-10% of detainees "return to the battlefield" after [read post]
8 May 2008, 2:52 pm
The defense team contends that the commission system is so flawed that convictions are foreordained — a point that Pentagon officials rigorously contest. [read post]
8 May 2008, 9:58 am
.'" Graff suggests that Power "might take a leading role on the National Security Council or at the State Department or Pentagon. [read post]
7 May 2008, 6:10 pm
"Comedy of errors as war court complex debuts": Carol Rosenberg of The Miami Herald has a news update that begins, "The Pentagon took its new $12 million war court complex out for a test run Wednesday with the arraignment of an alleged al Qaeda propagandist -- and the state-of-the-art facility failed. [read post]
7 May 2008, 12:37 pm
The argument's audio is available here and is well worth the 45 minutes it takes to listen to it.To mark the end of oral argument season, the Federal Bar Association's Pentagon Chapter and CAAF are hosting a reception at CAAF next Wednesday, 14 May, at 1500. [read post]
6 May 2008, 10:41 am
The Pentagon's masters of future research want to build a model of the internet, complete with replicant users uploading sneezing panda videos and downloading fake codecs that join their Windows ME boxes to zombie computer armies, THREAT LEVEL's sister blog Danger Room reports. [read post]
6 May 2008, 5:48 am
[JURIST] A panel of the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments Monday in a government appeal against a lower court order [JURIST report] directing the Pentagon to release additional documents revealing the names of Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees who have either been released or who have alleged abuse [JURIST news archive] by prison guards or other detainees. [read post]
3 May 2008, 2:14 pm
Due to a shortfall in contributions from NATO allies, the Pentagon is considering sending as many as 7,000 more US troops to Afghanistan, write Steven Lee Myers and Thom Shanker in the New York Times: [Senior Bush administration officials] said the step would push the number of American forces there to roughly 40,000, the highest level since the war began more than six years ago, and would require at least a modest reduction in troops from Iraq. [read post]
1 May 2008, 7:30 am
MSNBC reported recently that the Pentagon has spent $2.5 million to date on a project that will provide hand-held lie detectors to U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. [read post]
