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6 Apr 2008, 11:32 pm
Link to the NACDL press release.The New York Times also reported on this story, and the groups concern that the Pentagon had not provided adequate financing to military defense lawyers who are to be assigned to represent all detainees charged with war crimes in a process that the groups said permitted convictions based on "secret evidence, hearsay and confessions derived from torture. [read post]
6 Apr 2008, 12:33 am
Part 1 and Part 2 from the Georgetown Faculty Blog. [read post]
4 Apr 2008, 9:35 pm
This image was reviewed by a Pentagon official prior to release as a condition of media access at the prison camps. [read post]
3 Apr 2008, 1:43 pm
"A newly disclosed Justice Department legal memorandum, written in March 2003 and authorizing the military's use of extremely harsh interrogation techniques, offers what could be a revealing clue in an unsolved mystery: What responsibility did top Pentagon and Bush administration officials have for abuses committed by American troops at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and in Afghanistan; Guantánamo Bay, Cuba; and elsewhere? [read post]
3 Apr 2008, 2:57 am
Also, Pam Hess and Lara Lakes Jordan of the AP are onto the connection between the "Fourth Amendment" footnote in this memo and the NSA's warrantless surveillance program.Oh, and in the meantime, on the very day that the Yoo memo was released, we have the tantalizing Vanity Fair excerpts from Philippe Sands's new book -- the prequel to the Yoo memo, which takes the Pentagon story more or less right up to the point where the Yoo memo resolves the Pentagon debate… [read post]
2 Apr 2008, 12:49 pm
(Don't know how I made that mistake -- inept Googling, I suppose.)Thus, when the Yoo memo was issued to the Pentagon, Jay Bybee was still the head of OLC, although for some reason he did not sign this Opinion.My sincerest apologies to Judge Bybee, Ed Whelan and Balkinization readers for this mistake. [read post]
2 Apr 2008, 9:47 am
First, as Jane Mayer and others have reported, this memo was written in the midst of a bitter battle within the Pentagon about whether the military should -- and could legally -- deviate from its decades-old practice of adhering to the Geneva Conventions and the Army Field Manual. [read post]
1 Apr 2008, 8:24 pm
Yoo prepared the memo for William Haynes,"then the Pentagon's general counsel and another key player in the administration's legal strategy. [read post]
1 Apr 2008, 4:15 pm
So as a general matter, he thinks having the Pentagon buy from foreign sources is OK. [read post]
1 Apr 2008, 3:18 pm
As Marty explains, this memo "effectively gave the Pentagon the green light to disregard statutory limits on torture, cruelty and maltreatment in the treatment of detainees. [read post]
1 Apr 2008, 1:25 pm
Did the AG, DAG, head of OLC [correction: (Jay Bybee)] even know of the existence of this 81-page memo that was causing such heartache at the Pentagon? [read post]
1 Apr 2008, 10:15 am
The very next day -- a Saturday, mind you -- John Yoo, merely a Deputy AAG in the Office, issued his notorious memo to the Pentagon, on behalf of OLC.The Yoo memo effectively gave the Pentagon the green light to disregard statutory limits on torture, cruelty and maltreatment in the treatment of detainees. [read post]
31 Mar 2008, 2:23 pm
Bell, a professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, wrote in the Los Angeles Times (and discussed on the Atlantic Review post Responding to "Al-Qaeda's Revival"): Imagine that on 9/11, six hours after the assault on the twin towers and the Pentagon, terrorists had carried out a second wave of attacks on the United States, taking an additional 3,000 lives. [read post]
31 Mar 2008, 2:18 pm
Solution: dump what David Hollinger aptly calls the "ethno-racial Pentagon" -- the moronic idea that people have to be classified in one, or a combination of, five racial groups in this country, and the associated idea that these groups express some kind of culture or shared affinity. [read post]
29 Mar 2008, 12:02 pm
The administration, I was told, had considered seeking a Pentagon Papers-type injunction to block publication of the story. [read post]
29 Mar 2008, 10:41 am
NYTimes 3/29/08 Is Pentagon using Guantanamo trial to influence election? [read post]
28 Mar 2008, 2:33 pm
Morris Davis, an Air Force Judge Advocate and the Pentagon's former chief prosecutor responsible for bringing charges against the detainees at Guantánamo, has retired from the Air Force, effective November 1, according to the Air Force Times. [read post]
27 Mar 2008, 2:21 pm
Lichtblau says that the Times was spurred into action when it heard that the Bush administration was thinking of seeking a Pentagon Papers-style injunction against publication. [read post]
26 Mar 2008, 9:16 am
And Justice Breyer was skeptical that it made any real difference that the U.S. soldiers holding the detainees operated as part of a multinational force, given that it was clear that they took their commands from the Pentagon and the President. [read post]
24 Mar 2008, 9:18 am
New York has so many native foreign- language speakers that it lends translators to the Pentagon. 'People have information, and they want to control information,' Kelly told the Post. 'Controlling information is power, and they don't want to let it go -- it is as fundamental as that.' "
Washington Post [read post]
