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14 Jul 2005, 1:44 pm
[JURIST] US Senators said Thursday at a Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing [witness list, statements] that Congress should enact legislation to define the legal status of prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay, while the Pentagon called such a plan too restrictive since present laws enable the US to detain the prisoners for an unlimited period of time. [read post]
19 Dec 2008, 9:45 pm
We write a lot more about whistle-blowing after Watergate and the Pentagon Papers than we did before, although I don’t know of formal citation evidence to support this claim. [read post]
15 Sep 2005, 1:33 pm
[JURIST] US Congressman Curt Weldon (R-PA) [official website] said Thursday that an unnamed Pentagon employee was ordered to destroy documents that identified Mohammed Atta [Wikipedia profile] as a terrorist two years before the 9/11 attacks [JURIST news archive], and was prepared to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee next week and reveal the identity of who directed the documents' [read post]
6 May 2008, 5:48 am
[JURIST] A panel of the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments Monday in a government appeal against a lower court order [JURIST report] directing the Pentagon to release additional documents revealing the names of Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees who have either been released or who have alleged abuse [JURIST news archive] by prison guards or other detainees. [read post]
9 May 2008, 5:07 am
Of the 500 inmates who have been released from the detention facility, Gates said Pentagon data shows that between 5-10% of detainees "return to the battlefield" after [read post]
11 Feb 2008, 12:00 am
[JURIST] The Pentagon is expected to announce Monday that military prosecutors will seek the death penalty against six Guantanamo detainees accused of involvement in the Sept. 11 terror attacks, according to government sources speaking on condition of anonymity. [read post]
26 Feb 2005, 3:31 pm
The Pentagon says eighteen detainees have been ordered released so far, though only one [read post]
26 Jan 2012, 5:19 am
. “The Army’s force reduction has been expected by analysts, but the cuts are now getting finalized as part of the Pentagon’s 2013 budget, which is the first that will deal with a $487 billion reduction over the next decade.” [read post]
28 Aug 2009, 12:00 pm
The Pentagon "has no particular deadline" for meeting President Obama's request for ways to "relax the implementation of 'don't ask, don't tell,'" reports The Advocate. [read post]
14 May 2007, 9:45 pm
"Guantanamo Detainees' Suit Challenges Fairness of Military's Repeat Hearings": Tuesday's edition of The New York Times will contain an article that begins, "The military system of determining whether detainees are properly held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, includes an unusual practice: If Pentagon officials disagree with the result of a hearing, they order a second one, or even a third, until they approve of the finding. [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]
4 Feb 2015, 5:22 am
— A lawsuit filed Tuesday by plaintiffs including a female veterans group is pressing the Pentagon for information on gender targets and recruiting policies at U.S. service academies, where enrollment remains overwhelming male. [read post]
22 Nov 2015, 11:27 am
Over the last few weeks, the Pentagon inspector general seized emails from military servers [New York Times report] as the investigation continues. [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]
15 Jan 2007, 1:57 am
[JURIST] US Vice President Dick Cheney [official website] Sunday defended the Pentagon and CIA's review of banking and credit records [JURIST report] of hundreds of American citizens suspected of ties to terror groups, calling it a "perfectly legitimate activity" in an interview [transcript] with Fox News Sunday. [read post]
18 Aug 2004, 1:51 pm
Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks is expected to argue that interrogators forced false confessions from him, according to the Pentagon's Major-General John Altenburg. [read post]
21 Jan 2015, 5:43 am
KBR, the largest military defense contractor for the Pentagon during the Iraq war, was responsible for the most basic services provided to soldiers. [read post]
22 May 2014, 7:23 am
"I don’t think anybody’s underestimating the level of difficulty in both finding them and then being able to launch some kind of recovery mission," said the Pentagon press secretary.I have no idea how much connection there is between what they say they are doing and what they are actually doing. [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]
19 Dec 2007, 6:45 am
CAAFlog (remember, you can't spell CAAFlog without "Flog") points out that the Pentagon gave up on its proposal to make sure that Judge Advocates were promoted by political-types. [read post]
