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7 May 2003, 9:20 am
Here's my academic pick of important and interesting stories making this morning's legal news: Gun rights case seen headed for high court | AP Pentagon Surveillance Plan Is Described as Less Invasive | New York Times Handling of Secrets in Spy Cases Debated | Washington Post Sentencing reform raises legal worries | BBC Zimbabwe media law struck down | BBC Milosevic Security Chiefs to Be Arraigned [read post]
8 Dec 2015, 7:10 am
Navy’s new Littoral Combat Ship would be ineffective at hunting for mines because an underwater drone made by Lockheed Martin Corp. that’s supposed to find them doesn’t always work, the Pentagon’s weapons-testing office found. [read post]
29 Jun 2004, 1:24 pm
AP is reporting that the Pentagon has formed a military tribunal to try three terror suspects in Guantanamo Bay. [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]
19 Jan 2009, 8:31 am
[JURIST] Pre-trial hearings for five men detained at Guantanamo Bay as 9/11 conspirators [JURIST news archives] proceeded on Monday despite the Pentagon's chief prosecutor's earlier request [JURIST report] that they be delayed. [read post]
14 Jan 2009, 10:38 am
Today's New York Times contained a revelation that was not, exactly, all that revelatory:The senior Pentagon official in the Bush administration's system for prosecuting detainees said in a published interview that she had concluded that interrogators had tortured a Guantánamo detainee who has sometimes been described as 'the 20th hijacker' in the 2001 terrorist attacks.Official confirmation of [read post]
28 Nov 2010, 7:09 am
The Defense Department has promised more information about the family court systems in countries such as Japan and Germany, where servicemembers have become entangled in complicated court battles to see their children, according to a report recently released by the Pentagon. [read post]
7 May 2007, 8:34 am
David Petraeus [official profile], the top commanding officer of US troops in Iraq, told a gathering of reporters Monday that he was "greatly concerned" by a survey [text; JURIST report] released by the Pentagon Friday that revealed many US troops in Iraq felt that Iraqi civilians did not deserve to be treated "with respect and dignity," that torture was acceptable to save the lives [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]
24 Nov 2006, 5:24 pm
"Graham goes back on attack over judicial pick": Yesterday's edition of The State of Columbia, South Carolina contained an article that begins, "President Bush again has sent the Senate the nomination of William Haynes, the Pentagon's top lawyer, to the federal appellate court over South Carolina, a controversial pick senators twice have declined to support. [read post]
24 Jul 2007, 7:52 am
WaPo: "The Pentagon Gets A Lesson From Madison Avenue": "In the advertising world, brand identity is everything. [read post]
25 Jul 2023, 6:05 pm
Navy, in favor of a woman currently serving in the Pentagon The post Biden Overrides Defense Secretary Recommendation for Navy Chief of Operations, Appoints Woman To Achieve “A First” first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion. [read post]
3 Feb 2009, 1:27 pm
" The AP also reports that a Pentagon spokesperson said yesterday "that England's view remains that of the department. [read post]
7 Mar 2007, 5:07 am
"Hearings Set on Status of Detainees": The New York Times today contains an article that begins, "The Pentagon said on Tuesday that it planned to begin hearings this week on the status of 14 prisoners who were transferred from secret prisons to the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. [read post]
20 Jul 2005, 2:11 am
[JURIST] Nine senior staff members of the Iraqi Special Tribunal [JURIST news archive], each former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party [Wikipedia backgrounder], were dismissed on Tuesday, apparently at the instance of Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister and former Iraqi exile leader and Pentagon favorite Ahmad Chalabi [JURIST news archive], currently in charge of the Iraqi government's " [read post]
13 Apr 2006, 8:24 am
[JURIST] Convicted 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui [BBC profile] took the witness stand for the second time [JURIST report] in his sentencing trial [JURIST news archive; case docket] Thursday and lambasted his court-appointed defense attorneys for failing to move the proceeding away from Alexandria, VA, only a few miles away from the Pentagon building that was hit on 9/11. [read post]
26 Feb 2015, 9:31 am
In December military commission judges were directed to move to Guantanamo at the request of a Pentagon legal official in hopes of speeding up litigation in the three active cases. [read post]
24 Jan 2017, 1:34 pm
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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]
30 Jul 2008, 8:35 am
Britain's top court refused to stop the extradition to the U.S. of a British hacker accused of breaking into Pentagon and NASA computers -- he claims to have done while hunting for information on UFOs. [read post]
