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4 May 2005, 1:18 am
Dominguez [official profile], announced Tuesday that the Pentagon will investigate reported religious activities at the Colorado Springs United States Air Force Academy [official website] to determine if the climate there respects the Establishment and Free Exercise clauses of the US Constitution. [read post]
29 Apr 2005, 9:18 am
[JURIST] Stephen Cambone [official biography], undersecretary of defense for intelligence, on Thursday told the Senate Armed Services Committee [official website] that the CIA will no longer be allowed to hold unregistered "ghost" detainees at US military installations such as Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison [Wikipedia profile; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
21 Apr 2005, 8:03 pm
Pentagon officials did ask Congress to approve a change to the military justice code's treatment of [read post]
21 Apr 2005, 1:12 pm
[JURIST] The office of the Pentagon's general counsel [official website] has sent leaders of the US Senate and House of Representatives Armed Services Committees a draft copy of a proposal saying that consensual sodomy between members of the US military would no longer be a criminal act. [read post]
17 Mar 2005, 7:39 am
[JURIST] The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) [official website] threatened to remove itself from Guantanamo Bay interrogations due to the abuse of detainees in late 2002, forcing the Pentagon to review interrogation techniques approved by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld [official biography], according to a classified Defense Department report. [read post]
16 Mar 2005, 12:01 am
The number is much higher than indicated in a Pentagon report to Congress last week that cited only six prisoner deaths caused by abuse. [read post]
11 Mar 2005, 1:56 am
[JURIST] The Pentagon wants to cut in half the number of detainees currently held at Guantanamo Bay by tranferring many prisoners out of the country to facilities in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Yemen, according to a report published in Friday's New York Times. [read post]
11 Mar 2005, 1:26 am
Church that effectively concluded that the Pentagon's civilian and military leadership was not to blame for abuses of prisoners by US personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan. [read post]
10 Mar 2005, 1:41 am
[JURIST] An investigation of US military interrogation policies and techniques presented to Congress Thursday by former US Navy Inspector-General Vice Adm. [read post]
26 Feb 2005, 3:31 pm
The Pentagon says eighteen detainees have been ordered released so far, though only one [read post]
14 Feb 2005, 4:18 am
[JURIST] The Pentagon [official website] announced on Monday that it is investigating eight additional Air Force contracts to determine if they were a product of illegal influence or manipulation by Darleen Druyun. [read post]
10 Feb 2005, 6:01 am
[JURIST] The Washington Post reported Thursday that allegations by Guantanamo Bay [JURIST Hot Topic] detainees that female soldiers at the military base used sexually suggestive tactics during interrogations of detainees have been confirmed by a Pentagon investigation. [read post]
27 Jan 2005, 8:02 am
A Pentagon spokesman said late Wednesday: "We continue to believe that these individuals pose a significant threat. [read post]
2 Jan 2005, 1:00 am
The Pentagon and CIA have requested that the administration come up with a more permanent approach for dealing with current military and CIA detainees. [read post]
17 Dec 2004, 11:50 am
[JURIST] The Washington Post Friday published details about the existence of a hitherto-secret CIA prison within the Pentagon-run military detention facility for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. [read post]
16 Dec 2004, 9:20 am
A Pentagon spokeperson said Wednesday that 130 US troops from various branches of the service have been charged or punished by the military in connection with the abuse of prisoners at facilities in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay. [read post]
9 Dec 2004, 11:12 am
[JURIST] Military planners are seeking $25 million to build a state-of-the-art 200-cell permanent detention facilty in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to be guarded by a special 324-member professional guard force, according to a story running Thursday in the Miami Herald. [read post]
9 Dec 2004, 8:40 am
The Pentagon spokeman said said the four had been reprimanded for excessive use of [read post]
7 Dec 2004, 5:16 pm
[JURIST] A long-awaited reported to Congress by the US Defense Department Inspector General has concluded that "leadership failures" by multiple Air Force secretaries, military chiefs of staff, legal officers and superintendents of the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs resulted in a decade of sexual abuse and harassment of female cadets at the elite facilty. [read post]
6 Dec 2004, 7:08 am
Under the stop-loss program, the Pentagon may extend enlistments during war or national emergencies. [read post]
