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Supreme Court Grants Habeas Corpus to Detainees at GTMO
By a 5 to 4 vote that brought strongly worded and remorseful dissents from the Court’s conservative justices, the majority held that an alternative procedure designed by the Administration and Congress was inadequate to insure that the detainees “receive their day in court”. While all Supreme Court cases are necessarily historic - as they become [...]
AP: Pentagon announces Iraq, Afghanistan troop deployments
The Pentagon on Monday announced upcoming deployments of more than 42,000 troops, including 25,000 active duty Army soldiers who would be sent to Iraq beginning in the fall to replace troops scheduled to come home by year’s end.
The deployments would maintain a level of 15 brigades in Iraq, or roughly 140,000 troops - the number [...]
Military Analysts & Pentagon Access: Outreach or Propaganda
Washington, D.C. (Rightcommentary.com): A story has been slowly bubbling, mostly of interest to those of us within the Beltway, regarding the access that the Pentagon provided former military members and other influential individuals - collectively referred to as “military analysts.” The allegation of the Pentagon’s critics is that the Administration was engaged in propaganda. My [...]
US Enemy Combatant Detention system under fire…
An excellent post in the SCOTUS blog today about the US detention system… I recommend it:
The first civilian court review of the military’s four-year-old system seeking to justify detention of terrorism suspects produced a skeptical response to three of the government’s key legal defenses of that system. In a hearing on April 4 that ran [...]
Feith’s interview on 60 Minutes
Washington, D.C. (Rightcommentary): This was a painful video to watch - especially when Mr. Feith said “no one in the administration said that,” and then Steve Kroft runs the videos of one after the other of administration officials that had justified it on the basis of WMD. As someone who was in the Pentagon, in [...]
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