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16 Jun 2014, 7:34 am
It questions the effectiveness of the program if it were to be carried out through the Pentagon. [read post]
7 Nov 2013, 11:27 am
James Pohl has ordered the Pentagon to turn over all the correspondence from the International Committee of the Red Cross about the treatment of Guantanamo Bay detainees. [read post]
18 Apr 2008, 11:49 am
She forgot that the bombs her group was throwing into the homes of Judges and into the Pentagon, would kill people. [read post]
21 Mar 2012, 11:40 am
The Supreme Court has consistently read the First Amendment broadly, as evidenced by the landmark Pentagon Papers case. [read post]
10 Aug 2007, 1:00 am
The Pentagon will allow only lawyerslicensed in the US to visit the inmates, putting Mr Stafford Smith,who has dual British and American citizenship, in an unusualposition. [read post]
16 Jul 2008, 9:05 pm
The brief also quoted statements from a former chief prosecutor that the war crimes trials were designed to achieve political value before elections, and by a Pentagon lawyer that the trials were set up to get convictions because acquittals could not be explained. [read post]
10 Sep 2007, 1:43 pm
Shortly after 9/11, a gentleman by the name of John Poindexter — a retired rear admiral, former National Security Advisor to President Reagan, and Iran-Contra conspirator (whose conviction was overturned thanks, in part, to the ACLU) — moved from a hi-tech defense contractor along the Washington Beltway into the halls of the Pentagon. [read post]
9 Apr 2013, 1:26 pm
” Speaking of the Mazzetti book, Shane Harris, over at the Dead Drop blog, has this nugget from the book: In 2006, as the war in Iraq was reaching a fever pitch, a Pentagon employee working on special operations teamed up with a Czech technology entrepreneur who had dabbled in the porn business and devised what they considered an ingenious plan. [read post]
13 Jun 2010, 7:13 pm
. -=-=-=-=- To illustrate this, he started off with a discussion of the Pentagon Papers case (which decided that the government couldn’t get an injunction to prevent the NY Times from publishing a classified report during wartime, because that would be an impermissible prior restraint on the First Amendment). [read post]
24 Apr 2007, 10:42 pm
One of the striking revelations of Rajiv Chandrasekaran's beautifully-written, scrupulously-reported Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone is the extent to which the neoconservatives' alternative foreign ministry inside the Pentagon deliberately concealed important information from the Americans charged with reconstruction. [read post]
27 May 2011, 8:30 am
When Uncle Sam's proclaimed global mission is to prevent other countries from being used as a base for a terrorist attack on the United States, the Pentagon's combat tasks are bottomless. [read post]
8 Jun 2007, 3:17 pm
(NOTE: On Friday, a Pentagon spokesman told reporters that the military will ask the two judges to reconsider their rulings) In the new filing in D.C. [read post]
13 Apr 2011, 9:01 pm
In an effort to set a de facto technical standard, the US started to use the Pentagon’s buying power to acquire compliant smart cards, in the hope of creating economies of scale for Clipper-enabled devices and thus setting a market standard too. [read post]
4 Jan 2013, 7:54 am
Here’s Carlo Munoz of The Hill on the Pentagon’s disclaimer. [read post]
19 Feb 2021, 11:23 am
She recounts the stories of famous whistleblowers, such as Daniel Ellsberg (Pentagon Papers), Mark Felt (Watergate scandal), Sherron Watkins (Enron), Susan Fowler (Uber) and Karen Silkwood (Kerr-McGee), all of whom exposed fraud at the highest levels of power at great personal cost. [read post]
13 May 2024, 1:59 pm
United States, otherwise known as the “Pentagon Papers” case, from 1971. [read post]
20 Nov 2014, 10:46 am
Foreign Policy reports that Pentagon officials have sent Congress new details on their plan to train and equip Syrian rebels in an effort to secure funding for the project. [read post]
5 Feb 2010, 3:06 pm
The Obama Administration, like the Bush Administration before it, has held the view that only the Executive Branch can decide what happens ultimately to Guantanamo prisoners, even if they have won release orders in federal court or have been cleared for release by the Pentagon. [read post]
20 Aug 2012, 2:53 am
Documents released by the Pentagon last week following a Freedom of Information request by US journalists revealed that powerful anti-psychotic sedatives were routinely used on Guantanamo prisoners. [read post]
14 Jan 2007, 8:43 am
Matters might be different if clients try to muscle lawyers into dropping their detainee clients: the law-firm lawyers representing them are proud of the work they're doing, and lots of lawyers find their pro bono work a personally necessary counterweight, even a professional redemption, to the anti-bono that pays the bills.The fact that the Pentagon disowned Stimson's fatuous interview doesn't mean big businesses won't take up his invitation, although it's a bit… [read post]
