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20 Feb 2008, 11:59 am
In fact, the new response argued, the Bismullah case is in such a preliminary stage that there not only is nothing final from the Circuit Court in it for the Supreme Court to judge, and there has not yet been a single case in which the Circuit Court has weighed the adequacy of a Pentagon ruling that an individual was an “enemy combatant. [read post]
20 Feb 2008, 9:39 am
This is mind-boggling: Pentagon Chief Counsel Michael Haynes told Davis there can be no acquittals: [More...] [read post]
20 Feb 2008, 8:33 am
Bush nominated him to a federal bench position, but his nomination was actually blocked by Republican Lindsey Graham because of Haynes involvement in developing the Pentagon's torture policies. [read post]
20 Feb 2008, 4:52 am
Wilkes, a California defense contractor and prominent GOP campaign contributor, was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison yesterday for lavishing a Republican congressman with money, prostitutes and other bribes in exchange for nearly $90 million in work from the Pentagon. [read post]
19 Feb 2008, 3:02 pm
” This was the second supplemental brief detainees’ counsel had filed with the Justices, in the wake of the Circuit Court’s refusal on Feb. 1 by an evenly divided vote to reconsider a July 20 three-judge panel decision laying down the basic ground rules for the court’s review of military detention rulings (rulings made by the Pentagon’s so-called Combatant Status Review Tribunals). [read post]
19 Feb 2008, 10:01 am
In a statement on its site, Wikileaks compared the injunction to ones eventually overturned by the Supreme Court in the Pentagon Papers case. [read post]
19 Feb 2008, 9:53 am
[JURIST] US District Judge Larry Burns sentenced former US defense contractor Brent Wilkes [SourceWatch profile; JURIST news archive] to 12 years in federal prison Tuesday for bribing now-former congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham [official profile] in exchange for almost $90 million in Pentagon work. [read post]
19 Feb 2008, 5:03 am
"Pentagon to challenge interview of 9/11 suspect": Today in The Miami Herald, Carol Rosenberg has an article that begins, "Pentagon prosecutors are challenging a military court's decision to let Osama bin Laden's driver send written questions to alleged senior al Qaeda members held incommunicado at Guantanamo. [read post]
18 Feb 2008, 3:38 pm
To find an injunction similar to the Cayman's case, we need to go backto Monday June 15, 1971 when the New York Times published excepts of ofDaniel Ellsberg's leaked "Pentagon Papers" and found itself injunctedthe following day. [read post]
17 Feb 2008, 10:16 pm
His successors won't rule out introduction of such evidence.What's more, it's been disclosed that the Pentagon sent in a so-called "Clean Team," which gave detainees who'd suffered coercion during initial interrogations food and coffee in an effort to get new, untainted confessions. [read post]
17 Feb 2008, 6:27 am
"The Pentagon's surplus program sells millions of dollars of excess military equipment to the public each year. [read post]
15 Feb 2008, 8:14 pm
Circuit Court 5-5 — just how much information from government files must be turned over to the Circuit Court, and to detainee lawyers, as the Circuit Court judges the validity of Pentagon decisions to keep prisoners confined at Guantanamo by designating them as “enemy combatants. [read post]
15 Feb 2008, 9:00 am
"Nacchio's account,"The Washington Post reported, "suggests that the Bush administration was seeking to enlist telecommunications firms in programs without court oversight before the terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon. [read post]
14 Feb 2008, 2:00 pm
The military decisions at stake are made by special Pentagon-appointed panels, so-called Combatant Status Review Tribunals. [read post]
14 Feb 2008, 9:43 am
THIS SHOULD PROVIDE SOME EXCITEMENT: "U.S. officials say the Pentagon is planning to shoot down a broken spy satellite expected to hit the Earth in early March. [read post]
13 Feb 2008, 1:59 pm
Circuit Court on Wednesday afternoon delayed the effect of a key part of its July 20 decision requiring the Pentagon to produce in court a wide array of information in its files about individuals being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. [read post]
13 Feb 2008, 11:20 am
So naturally, our attorneys had something to say about the Pentagon's announcement Monday that it will charge six Guantánamo detainees in connection with the 9/11 attacks and seek the death penalty against them. [read post]
12 Feb 2008, 7:44 pm
What was especially interesting was the presence in the audience of Daniel Ellsberg, the RAND analyst who copied the Pentagon Papers and leaked them to the New York Times and the Washington Post. [read post]
12 Feb 2008, 1:42 pm
If the government cannot produce or reproduce that file in any given case, its only option, the Circuit Court said, was to send the case back to the Pentagon for another review (before a Combatant Status Review Tribunal, or CSRT). [read post]
12 Feb 2008, 11:59 am
In response to the Pentagon's announcement yesterday that it will try six Guantánamo detainees with 9/11 crimes, ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero writes in HuffingtonPost about the ongoing disgrace to the United States that is the military commission system:As an observer of the first military commission proceedings in 2004, I can testify to this system's ignominious shortcomings. [read post]
