2007.02.17 - PEGC Update ========================== 1) SUPREME COURT DETAINEE PETITIONS SCOTUSblog -- February 16, 2007 CHIEF JUSTICE SEEKS RESPONSE ON DETAINEE by Lyle Denniston http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/archives/2007/02/chief_justice_s.html SCOTUSblog -- February 16, 2007 CIRCUIT COURT DECISIONS OUT; NO DETAINEE RULING by Lyle Denniston http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/archives/2007/02/delay_in_circui.html February 15, 2007 ANOTHER DETAINEE FILES PLEA IN COURT by Lyle Denniston http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/archives/2007/02/another_detaine.html * Application for Injunction Requiring Factual Return: http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/archives/Sanani%20application.pdf February 14, 2007 GOVERNMENT OPPOSES QUICK RELIEF FOR [PARACHA] by Lyle Denniston http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/archives/2007/02/government_oppo_2.html SCOTUSblog -- February 13, 2007 [SUPREME] COURT ASKED TO BREAK DETAINEE CASE LOGJAM by Lyle Denniston http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/archives/2007/02/court_asked_to.html 2) MILITARY COMMISSIONS IPS -- February 16, 2007 GUANTANAMO TRIALS NEAR AMID MYRIAD CHALLENGES By William Fisher http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=36610 Int'l Herald Tribune / AP -- February 15, 2007 LAWYER CRITICIZES PENTAGON FOR RELEASING GUANTANAMO BAY CHARGE DETAILS http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/16/asia/AS-GEN-Australia-Guantanamo-Inmates.php White House -- February 14, 2007 EXECUTIVE ORDER TRIAL OF ALIEN UNLAWFUL ENEMY COMBATANTS BY MILITARY COMMISSION http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/02/20070214-5.html National Security Advisors -- February 16, 2007 MILITARY COMMISSIONS ACT PANEL AUDIO Bobby Chesney (Wake Forest, moderator) Curt Bradley (Duke) Carlos Vazquez (Georgetown) Brad Berenson (Sidley Austin; formerly of the White House Counsel's Office) Marty Lederman (Georgetown) Steve Vladeck (Miami / American) A very lively and interesting discussion... http://natseclaw.typepad.com/natseclaw/2007/02/military_commis.html 3) JOSE PADILLA Washington Post -- February 17, 2007 JUDGE ORDERS PADILLA JAIL PERSONNEL TO TESTIFY By Peter Whoriskey http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/16/AR2007021601914.html Reuters -- February 13, 2007 AL QAEDA SUSPECT PADILLA FIT FOR TRIAL - US DOCTORS By Jane Sutton http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N2D225307.htm 4) IRAQ TomDispatch -- February 15, 2007 The Power and the Glory The Undertaker's Tally (Part 2) By Roger Morris http://www.nationinstitute.org/tomdispatch/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid=165346 TomDispatch -- February 12, 2007 BAGHDAD SURGES INTO HELL First Results from the President's Offensive By Michael Schwartz http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid=165183 Los Angeles Times -- February 10, 2007 CIA DOUBTS DIDN'T DETER FEITH'S TEAM Intelligence agencies disagreed with many of its prewar findings. By Greg Miller and Julian E. Barnes http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-feith10feb10,1,1206376.story Fayetteville Observer -- January 27, 2007 ABUSE PROBE BACKS 82ND AIRBORNE By Kevin Maurer http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=253114 5) OTHER NEWS Washington Post -- February 17, 2007 MILAN COURT INDICTS 26 AMERICANS IN ABDUCTION CIA Operatives May Be Tried in Absentia By Sarah Delaney and Craig Whitlock http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/16/AR2007021600289.html Washington Post / AP -- February 16, 2007 31 TO STAND TRIAL IN CIA KIDNAPPING CASE By Colleen Barry http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/16/AR2007021600289.html The Raw Story -- February 16, 2007 DOCUMENTS SHOW NEW SECRETIVE US PRISON PROGRAM ISOLATING MUSLIM, MIDDLE EASTERN PRISONERS By Jennifer Van Bergen http://www.rawstory.com//news/2007/Documents_show_new_secretive_new_US_0216.html 6) NEW BOOKS Seven Stories Press -- UNITED STATES v. GEORGE W. BUSH ET AL. By Elizabeth de la Vega ISBN-10: 1-58322-756-3 ISBN-13: 978-1-58322-756-5 http://www.sevenstories.com/book/?GCOI=58322100641520 Other Press -- WEB OF DECEIT: The History of Western Complicity in Iraq, from Churchill to Kennedy to George W. Bush by Barry M. Lando ISBN-10: 1590512383 ISBN-13: 978-1590512388 http://www.otherpress.com/bookpage.php?bkID=487 7) OP-ED CounterPunch -- February 16, 2007 VERMONT LEGISLATURE SAYS BRING THEM HOME NOW! By James Marc Leas http://www.counterpunch.org/leas02162007.html JURIST -- February 13, 2007 THE LEGAL CASE AGAINST WAR WITH IRAN by Mary Ellen O'Connell http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumy/2007/02/legal-case-against-war-with-iran.php * * * PROJECT TO ENFORCE THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS (PEGC) http://www.pegc.us Charles B. Gittings Jr. Fort Bragg, California cbgittingsyahoo.com +1-707-964-2151