2006.01.03 - PEGC Update ========================== 1) THE DETAINEE TREATMENT ACT OF 2005 New York Times -- January 4, 2006 US TO SEEK DISMISSAL OF GUANTANAMO SUITS By Neil A. Lewis http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/04/politics/04gitmo.html US Congress -- December 18, 2005 DETAINEE TREATMENT ACT OF 2005 [McCain-Graham, signed into law 2005.12.30] HTM: http://www.justicescholars.org/pegc/detainee_act_2005.html PDF: http://www.justicescholars.org/pegc/archive/House/detainee_act_2005.pdf The White House -- * The BS... January 3, 2006 PRESS BRIEFING BY SCOTT MCCLELLAN http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/01/20060103-1.html * The propaganda... December 30, 2005 PRESIDENT'S STATEMENT ON THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS TO ADDRESS HURRICANES IN THE GULF OF MEXICO, AND PANDEMIC INFLUENZA ACT, 2006 http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/12/20051230-9.html * The "signing statement" legalese... December 30, 2005 PRESIDENT'S STATEMENT ON SIGNING OF H.R. 2863, THE "DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS TO ADDRESS HURRICANES IN THE GULF OF MEXICO, AND PANDEMIC INFLUENZA ACT, 2006" http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/12/20051230-8.html SCOTUSblog -- January 2, 2006 MOVE TO SCUTTLE HAMDAN, AL ODAH CASES? by Lyle Denniston http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/archives/2006/01/move_to_scuttle.html Balkinization -- January 2, 2006 SO MUCH FOR THE PRESIDENT'S ASSENT TO THE MCCAIN AMENDMENT by Marty Lederman http://balkin.blogspot.com/2006/01/so-much-for-presidents-assent-to.html New York Times -- December 30, 2005 GENERAL RETREATS ON RUMSFELD RIFT By Eric Schmitt http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/30/international/middleeast/30pace.ready.html 2) JOSE PADILLA Supreme Court -- Application of Hanft, No. 05A578 January 3, 2006 REPLY BRIEF IN SUPPORT OF THE GOVERNMENT’S APPLICATION RESPECTING THE CUSTODY AND TRANSFER OF JOSE PADILLA http://www.wiggin.com/db30/cgi-bin/pubs/Government%20Reply%20on%20Application%20for%20Extraordinary%20Relief%20January%203%202006.pdf December 30, 2005 PADILLA'S RESPONSE TO THE GOVERNMENT’S APPLICATION RESPECTING HIS CUSTODY AND TRANSFER http://www.wiggin.com/db30/cgi-bin/pubs/Padillas%20Response%20to%20Government%20Application%20for%20Extraordinary%20Relief%20December%2030%202005.PDF 3) APOLOGISTS Washington Post -- January 2, 2006 ALITO ONCE MADE CASE FOR PRESIDENTIAL POWER By Christopher Lee http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/01/AR2006010100788.html New York Times -- December 23, 2005 A JUNIOR AIDE HAD A BIG ROLE IN TERROR POLICY By Tim Golden http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/23/politics/23yoo.html Washington Post -- December 26, 2005 SCHOLAR STANDS BY POST-9/11 WRITINGS ON TORTURE, DOMESTIC EAVESDROPPING Former Justice Official Says He Was Interpreting Law, Not Making Policy By Peter Slevin http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/25/AR2005122500570.html New York Times -- October 24-25, 2004 THE PMO & BUSH DETAINEE POLICY By Tim Golden http://www.justicescholars.org/pegc/archive/Press/NY_Times/nyt_golden_20041024.p df Miami (Ohio) University -- April 2005 RETHINKING PRESIDENTIAL POWER -- THE UNITARY EXECUTIVE AND THE GEORGE W. BUSH PRESIDENCY. By Christopher S. Kelley http://www.users.muohio.edu/kelleycs/paper.pdf Washington Post -- December 22, 2005 UNANSWER MAN Scott McClellan Is the President's Spokesman, Which Doesn't Leave Him Much to Say By Mark Leibovich http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/21/AR2005122102272.html * Some sample BS... New York Times -- December 27, 2005 UNWARRANTED COMPLAINTS By David B. Rivkin and Lee A. Casey http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/27/opinion/27casey.html American Daily -- January 1, 2006 TORTURE BAN NAIL IN COFFIN FOR CONSERVATIVE SUPPORT OF BUSH By Edward McGuire http://www.americandaily.com/article/11002 4) FASCISM 101 New York Review of Books -- June 22, 1995 UR-FASCISM By Umberto Eco http://www.justicescholars.org/pegc/archive/Articles/eco_ur-fascism.pdf U. of Missouri K.C. -- The Nuremberg Trials: THE JUSTICE TRIAL (U.S.A. v. Alstötter) By Douglas Linder http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/nuremberg/Alstoetter.htm 5) OP-ED Santa Rosa Press-Democrat -- January 3, 2006 PRESIDENT'S ATTACK ON FREEDOM By Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA 6th) http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060103/NEWS/601030339/1050/OPINION New York Review of Books -- November 17, 2005 (Vol. 52, No. 18) WHAT BUSH WANTS TO HEAR By David Cole http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18431?email San Francisco Chronicle -- January 2, 2006 UNDERSTANDING THE UNITARY EXECUTIVE By Jon Carroll http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/01/02/DDG5TG01E31.DTL * * * PROJECT TO ENFORCE THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS (PEGC) http://www.justicescholars.org/pegc/ Charles B. Gittings Jr. Fort Bragg, California +1-707-964-2151 cbgittingsyahoo.com