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5 Aug 2006, 5:56 am
[JURIST] Inaccurate statements [JURIST report] presented to the 9/11 Commission [official website] by senior Pentagon officials regarding the Sept. 11 attacks [JURIST news archive] were not provided intentionally, but rather were the result of poor record-keeping, according to a newly-disclosed report by the US Defense Department Office of the Inspector General [official website]. [read post]
2 Aug 2006, 3:34 am
[JURIST] The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) [official website] has completed its probe into the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha [JURIST report] last November, and a Pentagon official indicated Wednesday that evidence supports accusations that US Marines from the Third Battalion, First Marine Regiment [official website] murdered the unarmed Iraqis. [read post]
2 Aug 2006, 3:28 am
[JURIST] Members of the 9/11 Commission [official website] considered asking the US Justice Department to investigate suspected deception by government officials intended to hide mistakes in the Pentagon's response to the Sept. 11 attacks [JURIST news archive], the Washington Post reported on Wednesday. [read post]
1 Aug 2006, 1:00 am
[JURIST] Detainees at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] have used items found in their cells to attack military guards hundreds of times, according to Pentagon memos [DOD materials] released through a Freedom of Information Act request by conservative legal group Landmark Legal Foundation [advocacy website]. [read post]
22 Jul 2006, 11:10 am
[JURIST] A new federal lawsuit has been filed against banned American military contractor Custer Battles [corporate website] and two former Pentagon officials alleging that the defendants tried to bypass a suspension order against the contractor by setting up shell companies to continue gaining rebuilding contracts in Iraq. [read post]
15 Jul 2006, 7:32 am
" The Pentagon had proposed somewhat streamlined procedures for the trial of suspects at Guantánamo by special military commissions. [read post]
12 Jul 2006, 1:54 am
[JURIST] William Haynes [official profile], the Pentagon general counsel nominated to the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit [official website], struggled to defend defense policies Tuesday during a Senate confirmation hearing [committee materials], drawing bipartisan questions relating to coercive interrogation techniques employed by the military in questioning terrorism suspects. [read post]
11 Jul 2006, 4:29 am
[JURIST] A group of twenty retired military officers has submitted a letter [PDF text] to the US Senate Judiciary Committee [official website] expressing "deep concern" about the fitness of William Haynes II [official profile; resumé], the current Pentagon general counsel, to serve as a federal judge. [read post]
11 Jul 2006, 1:00 am
[JURIST] The US military has decided to apply the Geneva Conventions [ICRC materials] to all detainees held in US military custody around the world, according to Tuesday's Financial Times. [read post]
6 Jul 2006, 2:41 am
In March, the Pentagon failed to respond to [read post]
25 Jun 2006, 3:42 pm
The Pentagon indicated that a Combatant Status Review Tribunal [DOD backgrounder] had considered one of the men to no longer be an enemy [read post]
20 Jun 2006, 2:32 am
[JURIST] Newly released Pentagon documents [ACLU list] provide evidence of "desperate and immoral conditions" [press release] at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] prior to the three suicides [JURIST report] there earlier this month, according to ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero. [read post]
16 Jun 2006, 2:25 pm
[JURIST] US Department of Defense documents released Friday chronicle multiple mistreatments of Iraqi prisoners by US personnel in 2003 and 2004 but stop short of labeling the instances of mistreatment illegal, describing them instead as "wrong. [read post]
14 Jun 2006, 8:59 am
Barnes addressing the Pentagon’s plans to omit the norms found in the Geneva Conventions prohibiting humiliating and degrading treatment while formulating the new Army Field Manual on interrogation.Said tenet of international humanitarian law can be found for example in Arts. 13 and 14 of the 3rd Geneva Convention and, more importantly, in Art. 3 para. 1 common to all Geneva Conventions. [read post]
13 Jun 2006, 1:00 pm
A Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday that no independent probe was needed and maintained that the military would [read post]
8 Jun 2006, 1:46 am
In a Pentagon briefing [transcript; recorded video] on [read post]
29 May 2006, 11:26 am
[JURIST] US Marine Corps General Peter Pace [official profile], chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff [official website], declined comment Monday on the Pentagon's investigation into the November 2005 killings of up to two dozen Iraqi civilians [JURIST report] in the troubled city of Haditha, in the western Anbar province of Iraq. [read post]
15 May 2006, 2:38 pm
It is here that personal privacy interfaces with an important function for society as a whole.Frank Rich, in an op-ed piece in yesterday's New York Times, draws the parallel with the 1971 publication by his newspaper of the "Pentagon Papers" which uncovered lies by the Johnson administration in the Vietnam war. [read post]
15 May 2006, 12:45 pm
The list adds some 201 names to a Pentagon list [PDF] [read post]
12 May 2006, 3:17 am
[JURIST] Faced with chronic security problems along the US border with Mexico, the Pentagon is exploring options in which the military can be utilized to alleviate some of the burden on US border patrol agents who are stretched too thin. [read post]
