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5 Nov 2006, 4:08 am
After the revelations about the abuse, torture and illegal detentions in Abu Ghraib, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay, Congress shielded the Pentagon from any responsibility for the atrocities its policies allowed to happen. [read post]
4 Nov 2006, 8:07 pm
The Pentagon guys chickened out. [read post]
4 Nov 2006, 12:05 pm
"German Detainee Questions His Country's Role": The New York Times today contains an article that begins, "During the four and a half years he languished in American prison camps in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Murat Kurnaz claims to have been beaten, locked alone for months, dunked in water, sexually humiliated and hung from the ceiling by chains -- all of which the Pentagon denies. [read post]
4 Nov 2006, 9:05 am
" It is also strange that the Pentagon is hell-bent on making both of these cases into suicides. [read post]
4 Nov 2006, 5:15 am
NOBODY LOVES DONALD: Or at least, there's a sudden wave of anti-Rumsfeld sentiment from people who have been supportive in the past. [read post]
3 Nov 2006, 12:06 pm
The Washington Times reports: The Pentagon has stepped up planning for attacks against North Korea's nuclear program and is bolstering nuclear forces in Asia, said defense officials familiar with the highly secret process. [read post]
3 Nov 2006, 8:06 am
Via Kevin Drum: The Pentagon budget signed a couple of weeks ago includes a hard date for putting Stuart Bowen, the Inspector General for Iraq, out of business: The order comes in the form of an obscure provision that terminates his federal oversight agency, the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, on Oct. 1, 2007. [read post]
2 Nov 2006, 8:00 pm
Lewis will have an article that begins, "The Pentagon expects to begin conducting the first war crimes trials at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, under the new military commission law by summer, senior military officials have said. [read post]
2 Nov 2006, 3:28 am
"Military Pressed Over Expressions of Faith": The Washington Post today contains an article that begins, "The U.S. military is being buffeted by dueling legal claims over religion, with one set of plaintiffs contending that the Pentagon is suppressing evangelical Christianity and another set arguing just the opposite -- that the brass gives the most aggressive evangelicals free rein to proselytize in uniform. [read post]
1 Nov 2006, 6:06 pm
Rumsfeld’s supervision of the military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan and his attempts to revamp the Pentagon bureaucracy. “I’m pleased with the progress we’re making,” Mr. [read post]
31 Oct 2006, 9:07 pm
The Pentagon, in releasing the names today of the latest U.S. troops to die in Iraq, says they died while supporting the "global war on terror. [read post]
27 Oct 2006, 7:26 am
This has been picked up by a number of bloggers who have been able to spread the Pentagon's rebuttal – and the efforts of the New York Times to sweep it under the rug – across the country. [read post]
26 Oct 2006, 3:41 pm
"This is Cheney ignoring the consensus of his own Pentagon," she said, referring to comments by senior officials that harsh interrogation techniques do not produce reliable intelligence. [read post]
26 Oct 2006, 6:07 am
And Reuters reports that "Pentagon eyes major spending for Guantanamo trials. [read post]
24 Oct 2006, 9:07 pm
Much better work is being done for free by milbloggers -- whom the Pentagon is trying to shut down. [read post]
24 Oct 2006, 12:36 pm
Courts: Pentagon Official Sentenced in Arms Sale U.S. [read post]
23 Oct 2006, 12:46 pm
"A Pentagon spokesman on Friday dismissed this as "speculation," but would not say whether al-Qahtani would be tried. [read post]
23 Oct 2006, 4:15 am
Even Pentagon analysts recently concluded that the fighting in Iraq has spawned a whole new generation of terrorists, motivated, and now trained in real time, to blow things up in the name of their cause. [read post]
19 Oct 2006, 8:52 am
[JURIST] The US Defense Department Office of the Inspector General [official website] has concluded that the US military's use of a propaganda program in Iraq was legal, a Pentagon spokesman said Thursday. [read post]
13 Oct 2006, 5:10 am
[JURIST] The US Department of Defense Inspector General [official website] on Friday announced that the armed force's Southern Command [official website] has been ordered to investigate [press release] allegations that detainee abuse is occurring at the military facility at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
