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24 Jan 2006, 8:29 am
District Judge Jed Rakoff rejected arguments by the Pentagon that releasing the names would harm the privacy interests of the detainees' and their families. [read post]
20 Jan 2006, 6:00 am
Ellis III of the Eastern District of Virginia [official website] on Friday sentenced former Pentagon analyst Lawrence A. [read post]
20 Jan 2006, 5:18 am
How can it be that no generals, no high level military leaders or Pentagon advisors are being prosecuted, or at least questioned. [read post]
13 Jan 2006, 3:38 am
[JURIST] Pentagon records [PDF] made public Thursday by the ACLU [press release] through ongoing FOIA requests [ACLU materials] show that the US Army closed a criminal investigation of abuse allegations by an Iraqi detainee [JURIST news archive] last year without questioning any Americans involved in the case, ultimately finding no reason to believe the detainee's allegations. [read post]
29 Dec 2005, 4:11 pm
The Pentagon defines a hunger striker as someone who has refused food for nine days or [read post]
29 Dec 2005, 11:28 am
[JURIST] An inquiry [AP report] by the Pentagon's Inspector General [official website] has concluded that websites operated by the US military that pay journalists to write articles and commentary supporting military activities are legal and do not infringe and laws or government policies. [read post]
16 Dec 2005, 2:17 am
[JURIST] The British government has announced that it will appeal a High Court ruling [JURIST report] earlier this week that found Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks [JURIST news archive; advocacy website] eligible for British citizenship. [read post]
15 Dec 2005, 2:22 am
[JURIST] The US House committee investigating the government's actions in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina [JURIST news archive] issued a subpoena Wednesday commanding Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld [official profile] to turn over internal records on the Pentagon's efforts to stabilize public safety, mobilize active duty forces in the region and send supplies to victims. [read post]
15 Dec 2005, 1:24 am
Officials said that the Pentagon [read post]
10 Dec 2005, 2:48 am
Pentagon officials said Lizin, who has [read post]
6 Dec 2005, 11:04 am
[JURIST] The Pentagon announced Tuesday that military commission trials for two foreign Guantanamo prisoners will begin with plea hearings on January 10 at the Guantanamo Bay [JURIST archive] detention facility without waiting for the US Supreme Court to decide the legality of such tribunals. [read post]
30 Nov 2005, 3:12 pm
He describes marines sending a mixture of burning white phosphorus and high explosives into buildings where insurgents have been sighted.This week Pentagon spokesman Lt. [read post]
27 Nov 2005, 12:06 pm
Weekly Standardby David Tell, for the Editors11/28/2005, Volume 011, Issue 11THE SENATE-APPROVED VERSIONS of next year's Defense authorization and appropriations bills each contain an amendment sponsored by Arizona's John McCain that would, as the commonplace newspaper shorthand has it, "make torture illegal" at Pentagon facilities throughout the world. [read post]
19 Nov 2005, 2:07 am
[JURIST] The Pentagon released a report Friday indicating that over 80,000 people have been detained in numerous facilities world-wide since the World Trade Center attacks in 2001. [read post]
16 Nov 2005, 7:54 am
" Pentagon officials said that [read post]
15 Nov 2005, 11:46 am
[JURIST] Pentagon officials admitted Tuesday that US troops in Iraq used white phosphorus [CDC factsheet; GlobalSecurity.org backgrounder] as an incendiary weapon against enemy combatants during a 2004 military assault on the insurgent-controlled city of Fallujah, but remained adamant that it was not used against civilians. [read post]
11 Nov 2005, 6:43 am
[JURIST] The Pentagon has refused to allow expert witnesses to testify at the upcoming military commission [JURIST news archive] hearing for Australian terror suspect David Hicks [BBC profile; advocacy website; JURIST news archive], a decision that his US military lawyer says increases the likelihood that he will not receive a fair trial. [read post]
10 Nov 2005, 8:45 am
[JURIST] A Pentagon spokesperson has said that US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld [official profile] is authorized to override the new Department of Defense Directive [PDF text; JURIST report] released Tuesday requiring all interrogations of detainees to be conducted in a humane manner. [read post]
10 Nov 2005, 12:13 am
The Pentagon had previously indicated that it would not seek the death penalty against Canadian teenager Omar Ahmed [read post]
9 Nov 2005, 8:51 am
[JURIST] The Pentagon has said it will not seek the death penalty against Omar Ahmed Khadr [CBC Khadr family profile], an 18-year-old Canadian citizen detained at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] who admitted throwing a grenade [JURIST report] that killed a US medic while fighting with the Taliban in 2002. [read post]
