2005.07.24 - PEGC Update ======================== 1) JOHN ROBERTS NOMINATION Washington Post -- July 25, 2005 ROBERTS LISTED IN FEDERALIST SOCIETY '97-98 DIRECTORY Court Nominee Said He Has No Memory of Membership By Charles Lane http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/24/AR2005072401201.html Slate -- July 19, 2005 THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT Last week, John Roberts wrote Bush a blank check. By Emily Bazelon http://slate.msn.com/id/2123055/ WorldNetDaily -- July 25, 2005 THUMB ON THE SCALE By Ellen Ratner http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45436 Salon -- July 20, 2005 THE JOHN ROBERTS DOSSIER By Katharine Mieszkowski http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/07/20/roberts_dossier/index_np.html Washington Post -- July 21, 2005 SHORT RECORD AS JUDGE IS UNDER A MICROSCOPE By Charles Lane http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/20/AR2005072002322.html Drudge Report -- July 19, 2005 - 20:00:00 ET BUSH PICKS... ROBERTS President Bush went to Denmark on July 5 with 11 names of top candidates under consideration. In the last few days, he interviewed five -- one on Thursday, two on Friday -- including Judge Roberts, who got a presidential tour of the residence, including the Lincoln Bedroom, during his one-hour visit -- and two on Saturday. Bush made his decision last night, finalizing it this morning. During lunch with Australian Prime Minister John Howard, Bush stepped out the room and called Roberts. When he returned, he said to the group, which included the leaders' wives: "I just offered the job to a great, smart 50-year-old old lawyer who has agreed to serve on the bench." And despite the intense scrutiny at the White House, Judge Roberts and his wife came to the presidential residence for dinner tonight. At 7:30 tonight, Bush began notifying congressional leaders. http://www.drudgereport.com/flash2.htm 2) GUANTANAMO BAY Washington Post -- July 23, 2005 WHITE HOUSE AIMS TO BLOCK LEGISLATION ON DETAINEES By Josh White and R. Jeffrey Smith http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/22/AR2005072201727.html BBC -- July 22, 2005 GUANTANAMO DETAINEES REFUSE FOOD http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4704871.stm Washington Post / AP -- July 21, 2005 GUANTANAMO INMATES DECLARE HUNGER STRIKE By John J. Lumpkin http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/21/AR2005072100844.html New Orleans Times-Picayune / AP -- July 22, 2005 ACLU HONORS MILITARY LAWYERS FOR GUANTANAMO CHALLENGE By Adam Nossiter http://www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?/base/news-17/1122053083157760.xml&storylist=louisiana Melbourne Herald-Sun -- July 22, 2005 Hicks trial to carry a heavy cost By Mark Dunn http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,16005529%255E662,00.html The Age (Melbourne) -- July 22, 2005 HICKS CAN'T GET FAIR TRIAL, SAYS LAWYER By Angela O'Connor http://www.theage.com.au/news/war-on-terror/hicks-cant-get-fair-trial-says-lawyer/2005/07/21/1121539089398.htm HRW -- Revised July 2005 BRIEFING PAPER ON U.S. MILITARY COMMISSIONS http://hrw.org/backgrounder/usa/gitmo0705/ 3) IRAQ The New Yorker -- July 18, 2005 (issue of 2005.07.25) GET OUT THE VOTE Did Washington try to manipulate Iraq’s election? By Seymour M. Hersh http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/050725fa_fact Democracy NOW! -- July 19th, 2005 SEYMOUR HERSH: BUSH AUTHORIZED COVERT PLAN TO MANIPULATE IRAQI ELECTIONS Interview with Amy Goodman http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/19/1353243 4) CYRUS KAR: THE GORY DETAILS Pop IHL quiz: how many grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions can you find in this story? Los Angeles Times -- July 24, 2005 'IS THIS HOW YOU TREAT ONE OF YOUR OWN?' By Henry Weinstein http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-me-cyrus24jul24,1,6190554.story 5) NEW BOOK ON THE QUIRIN CASE * This weekend C-SPAN aired a book signing appearence by the author of a new book on the Quirin case, and it really sounds terrific: The New Press -- IN TIME OF WAR: HITLER'S TERRORIST ATTACK ON AMERICA By Pierce O'Donnell May 2005, Hardcover, 1-56584-958-2, $27.95 / £18.99 / $36.50 CAN 6 1/8" x 9 1/4", 444 pages with 16 black-and-white photographs. http://www.intimeofwar.org/home.htm * Mr. O'Donnell is a top-notch attorney whose research dug deep over five years, and he analyzes the legal issues from the 19th-century precedents to the present. And his source material is available on his web site at... http://www.intimeofwar.org/source_documents.htm ...including: Military Trial Transcript in German Saboteurs Case, 07/08/1942-08/01/1942 Supreme Court Oral Argument Briefs re: Ex parte Quirin, 07/1942 Supreme Court Oral Argument Transcript re: Ex parte Quirin, 07/1942 The Reminiscences of Kenneth Claiborne Royall, 1960-1963 6) OP-ED St. Petersburg Times -- July 24, 2005 ROBERTS' RULES PUT US AT RISK By Robyn E. Blumner http://www.stpetersburgtimes.com/2005/07/24/Columns/Roberts__rules_put_US.shtml Dissident Voice -- July 21, 2005 GUANTANAMO: THE CALCULUS OF HUMAN MISERY by Mike Whitney http://www.dissidentvoice.org/July05/Whitney0721-2.htm Regards, Charly Charles Gittings Lake Chelan cbgittings@yahoo.com +1-509-682-2844 PEGC * * *