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18 Dec 2007, 1:57 pm
Anonymous posted an Army Times online article as a comment to Saturday's entry about an important Boston Globe article.Here's a link to the Army Times piece.The article by Rick Maze, headlined Pentagon backs off politicizing JAG promotions, begins: "An attempt within the Pentagon to politicize promotions for military judge advocates general appears to have been blocked after protests from military lawyers and threats from key lawmakers. [read post]
17 Dec 2007, 4:25 am
Each previous proposal has died amid controversy in the Pentagon or Congress. [read post]
16 Dec 2007, 11:28 am
The proposed rule would impose a new requirement of "coordination" with the general counsels of the services and the Pentagon during the JAG appointment and promotion process. [read post]
16 Dec 2007, 4:07 am
Rumsfeld bid farewell to the Pentagon in a splashy sendoff featuring lavish praise from President Bush. [read post]
16 Dec 2007, 3:37 am
Poems from Guantanamo. [read post]
15 Dec 2007, 6:35 pm
He also seems to think it necessary to limit military lawyer independence, so has proposed that promotions within the Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps, the military legal force, be "coordinated" with politically appointed Pentagon lawyers. [read post]
15 Dec 2007, 2:35 pm
Here are the article's first three paragraphs, which will give you an overview of the piece:The Bush administration is pushing to take control of the promotions of military lawyers, escalating a conflict over the independence of uniformed attorneys who have repeatedly raised objections to the White House's policies toward prisoners in the war on terrorism.The administration has proposed a regulation requiring "coordination" with politically appointed Pentagon lawyers… [read post]
13 Dec 2007, 3:16 pm
And by that I mean American soldiers since the Pentagon doesn't seem to count Iraqis, but that's a small point. [read post]
13 Dec 2007, 10:39 am
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates expressed frustration with America's European allies, as reported in the Washington Post article, "Pentagon Critical of NATO Allies": "I am not ready to let NATO off the hook in Afghanistan at this point," Gates told the House Armed Services Committee. [read post]
13 Dec 2007, 10:00 am
Peter Urban of the Connecticut Post reported that the House overwhelmingly approved legislation Wednesday that would authorize $696 billion in military programs and set Pentagon policies including an expansion of family medical leave for wounded service members. [read post]
13 Dec 2007, 6:12 am
As Eugene noted below, the Pentagon did not let Col. [read post]
13 Dec 2007, 6:06 am
" Carol Rosenberg of The Miami Herald has an article that begins, "The Pentagon said Wednesday it sent home 15 presumably long-held captives from Guantanamo, reducing the prison camp population to fewer than 300 for the first time since the earliest days of the detention center. [read post]
11 Dec 2007, 12:28 pm
Why is the Pentagon budget and staff sooo much bigger than the State Department budget and staff? [read post]
11 Dec 2007, 11:12 am
That's what Sen. [read post]
11 Dec 2007, 9:15 am
Today's edition of The Washington Post contains articles headlined "Waterboarding Recounted: Ex-CIA Officer Says It 'Probably Saved Lives' but Is Torture" and "Lawyers Assert That Pentagon Overstates Ex-Detainee Threat. [read post]
10 Dec 2007, 5:32 pm
And although Congress would like him to testify, the Pentagon has refused to let him. [read post]
9 Dec 2007, 4:28 am
Benjamin Wittes' latest column in The New Republic contributes valuably to the Guantanamo-detainee-rights debate by showing a number of admirable things:It is possible for a writer in a journal of political opinion to play the skeptical reporter, doing the hard work of checking primary source materials rather than blindly accepting the word of partisans about what those documents show (as Wittes says he has been doing for the past six months by plowing through declassified transcripts and… [read post]
6 Dec 2007, 7:34 pm
-allied Afghan forces captured Osama bin Laden's driver at a roadblock -- alone in a sedan allegedly with two surface-to-air missiles -- in the early days of the battle for Kandahar, an Army officer testified Thursday in the Pentagon's effort to try the man as a war criminal. [read post]
4 Dec 2007, 11:57 am
Court of Military Commission Review — a panel of three military officers appointed by the Pentagon. [read post]
4 Dec 2007, 9:20 am
Pentagon official Cully Stimson apologized (January 2007) and later resigned (February 2007) his job. [read post]
