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4 Jul 2007, 8:03 am
The most easily accessible is this short piece in the Economist, "Robot Wars," June 7, 2007, here:But whereas UAVs and their ground-based equivalents, such as the machinegun-toting Sword robots, are usually controlled by distant human operators, the Pentagon would like to give these robots increasing amounts of autonomy, including the ability to decide when to use lethal force.To achieve this, Ronald Arkin of the Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta, is developing a set of… [read post]
3 Jul 2007, 9:55 am
The Pentagon and the Justice Department do not have to turn over classified documents related to the Administration's warrant-free spying on Americans communications, according to a judge who was presiding over a open government case filed by The New York Times. [read post]
3 Jul 2007, 6:07 am
"Legislation Could Be Path to Closing Guantanamo": The New York Times today contains an article that begins, "Seeking a legal path to shutting down the Guantanamo detention facility, senior advisers to President Bush are exploring whether the White House and Congress can agree to legislation that would permit the long-term detention of foreign terrorism suspects on American soil, Pentagon and administration officials say. [read post]
2 Jul 2007, 2:40 pm
The Pentagon, however, has said that as many as 80 may be charged. [read post]
29 Jun 2007, 2:50 pm
This new ruling set the stage for a Pentagon appeal -- if some uncertainty over the availability of a proper appeals court is sorted out. [read post]
29 Jun 2007, 9:44 am
More recently, the detainees' lawyers had told the Court that information from inside the Pentagon detainee-review process confirmed their claim that the process was a "sham. [read post]
29 Jun 2007, 8:03 am
More recently, the detainees' lawyers had told the Court that information from inside the Pentagon detainee-review process confirmed their claim that the process was a "sham. [read post]
28 Jun 2007, 10:27 pm
Names of the Detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba: "Until March 3rd, the Pentagon had declined to identify the detainees at... [read post]
28 Jun 2007, 11:42 am
The ACLU filed a government sunshine suit Thursday against the Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency, seeking to force the agencies to disclose documents about their use of a powerful and secretive Patriot Act power known as a National Security Letter. [read post]
27 Jun 2007, 9:57 am
., lawyer who is an Army Reserve lieutenant colonel describing flaws that he observed while working on the Pentagon's review of detainees' status -- the process that determines whether they remain imprisoned. [read post]
27 Jun 2007, 6:41 am
Internal FBI memos and press reports have pointed to SERE training as the basis for some of the harshest techniques authorized for use on detainees by the Pentagon in 2002 and 2003. [read post]
27 Jun 2007, 3:21 am
By the time you go through the defense and final questionnaires, though, you'll have asked yourself whether these Virginia jurors drive past the Pentagon site; whether they know anyone who is reluctant to fly after September 11; and whether they had to work overtime after the attacks. [read post]
23 Jun 2007, 10:44 am
Lamberth also offered up a few snippets of his experience at the court--government agents showing up at his house in the middle of the night to get court orders signed; the embassy bombings in Africa; having to deal with bad affidavits in an al-Qaeda case that may have encouraged the Bush administration to forgo warrants; driving to the Pentagon just as the plane went into it on 9/11. [read post]
22 Jun 2007, 1:07 pm
Circuit Court, in reply to Admiral McGarrah's earlier filing describing how the Pentagon gathers information for the CSRTs and laying out what information is, or is not, allowed to be put before those panels. [read post]
21 Jun 2007, 11:10 am
Certain factions within the Administration have leaked word that a "consensus" is developing within the Administration to close the Guantanamo detention facility and to move at least some of the detainees there to the maximum security prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.The suggestion is, according to these officials, "gaining momentum with at least tacit support from the State and Homeland Security departments, the Pentagon, and the Intelligence directorate" . . . but .… [read post]
19 Jun 2007, 9:42 pm
"Multiple Pentagon investigations into the abuses committed at Abu Ghraib have each provided final explanations, and resulted in punishments for those smiling soldiers. [read post]
18 Jun 2007, 11:20 pm
June 18, 2007 at 12:32:38ABU GHRAIB INVESTIGATOR DETAILS PENTAGON COVER-UP by Seymour Hersh http://www.opednews.comand it was the first time that I thought I was in the Mafia. [read post]
18 Jun 2007, 1:41 pm
In one case the Pentagon did not include separate budget justification documents explaining how the Iraq War funding was to be spent in its 2007 budget request. [read post]
18 Jun 2007, 12:55 pm
The White House fires Pace as part of its many-month effort to sack everyone from the Rumsfeld era at the Pentagon. [read post]
17 Jun 2007, 12:46 pm
Taguba also knew that senior officials in Rumsfeld’s office and elsewhere in the Pentagon had been given a graphic account of the pictures from Abu Ghraib, and told of their potential strategic significance, within days of the first complaint. [read post]
