2007.07.xx - PEGC Update ========================== Boumediene v. Bush (06-1195) and Al Odah v. United States (06-1196). Boston Review -- September/October 2007 SLAVE TRADE ON TRIAL Lessons of a great human-rights law success by Jenny Martinez http://www.bostonreview.net/BR32.5/martinez.php Jenny Martinez, Anti-Slavery Courts and the Dawn of International Human Rights Law, forthcoming 117 Yale L.J. (fall 2007). http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=984077 Wednesday, October 10, 2007 From Robert Fitch and our friends down under...once again. http://gtmoblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/from-robert-fitch-and-our-friends-down.html No Comment -- October 8, 2007 'WE DO NOT TORTURE' by Scott Horton http://harpers.org/archive/2007/10/hbc-90001380 CounterPunch -- October 5, 2007 EIGHT MORE WRONGLY IMPRISONED MEN ARE QUIETLY RELEASED The Anonymous Victims of Guantanamo By ANDY WORTHINGTON http://www.counterpunch.org/worthington10052007.html Balkinization -- October 5, 2007 WERE YOU REALLY SURPRISED? by David Luban http://balkin.blogspot.com/2007/10/were-you-really-surprised.html Obsidian Wings -- October 4, 2007 NEW IMPROVED TORTURE MEMOS by hilzoy http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2007/10/new-improved-to.html D.C. Cir. -- October 5, 2007 Hamad v. Bush, No. 07-1098 (D.D.C. 05-cv-1009-JDB) DECLARATION OF WILLIAM J. TEESDALE, ESQ. http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/ hamad-declaration-10-5-07.pdf A NEW CRITIQUE OF PENTAGON DETAINEE PANELS Friday, October 5th, 2007 9:03 pm | Lyle Denniston http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/uncategorized/ a-new-critique-of-pentagon-detainee-panels/ SCOTUSblog -- October 9, 2007 GOVERNMENT: DETAINEES OUTSIDE CONSTITUTION by Lyle Denniston http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/uncategorized/ government-detainees-outside-constitution/ AP -- October 6, 2007 Second Army Officer Faults Gitmo Panels By BEN FOX http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071006/D8S3GKNG0.html October 3, 2007 GOVERNMENT DUTY IN DETAINEE CASES NARROWED by Lyle Denniston http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/uncategorized/government-duty-in-detainee-cases- narrowed/ http://www.pegc.us/archive/Al-Ghizzawi/ USCA D.C. Cir. -- October 3, 2007 No. 06-1197 HAJI BISMULLAH A/K/A HAJI BISMILLAH, AND A/K/A HAJI BESMELLA, HAJI MOHAMMAD WALI, NEXT FRIEND OF HAJI BISMULLAH, PETITIONERS v. ROBERT M. GATES, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, RESPONDENT X) TORTURE New York Times -- October 4, 2007 SECRET U.S. ENDORSEMENT OF SEVERE INTERROGATIONS By Scott Shane, David Johnston and James Risen. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/washington/04interrogate.html Harper's -- October 4, 2007 A NEW TASK ORDER FROM THE MINISTRY OF LOVE by Scott Horton http://harpers.org/archive/2007/10/hbc-90001357 Spiegel Online -- September 28, 2007 INTERVIEW WITH INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST SEYMOUR HERSH 'The President Has Accepted Ethnic Cleansing' http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,508394,00.html "SPIEGEL ONLINE: So what are the options in Iraq? "Hersh: There are two very clear options: Option A) Get everybody out by midnight tonight. Option B) Get everybody out by midnight tomorrow. The fuel that keeps the war going is us." Legal Times -- October 1, 2007 PEOPLE v. STATE Security secrets must be weighed against Americans' broader interests. by Louis Fisher http://www.pegc.us/archive/Articles/Fisher_LT_20071001.pdf Readers may also be interested in the report from an event I co-organized (with Balkinization bloggers Kim Lane Scheppele and Scott Horton, as well as Deborah Pearlstein) at Princeton University this past summer under the auspices of the Program in Law & Public Affairs. It was an off-the-record workshop of senior military officials, contractors, congressional staffers, DOD and intelligence community officials, NGO representatives, and academics. We've just produced a report that gives a sense of the meeting (and which everyone has agreed to make public). It's about to appear on the Law and Public Affairs website, http://lapa.princeton.edu/news.php, and I can provide a copy to anyone interested if they send an e-mail to me at laura.dickinson@law.uconn.edu. What's interesting is the surprising degree of consensus in the group on the need to close gaps in MEJA / SMTJ, the value of UCMJ prosecutions as a back-up in extreme cases, the need for centralized prosecution authority with DOJ, the need for high-level inter-agency coordination of contractor activities, and the need for a much more vigorous public debate about which funcitons to privatize in the first place. Laura Dickinson University of Connecticut School of Law # posted by Laura Dickinson, U. of Conn. Law School : 10:15 AM No Comment (Harper's) -- September 26, 2007 A PROTECTION RACKET by Scott Horton http://harpers.org/archive/2007/09/hbc-90001302 CPA -- June 27, 2004 ORDER NUMBER 17 (REVISED) STATUS OF THE COALITION PROVISIONAL AUTHORITY, MNF-IRAQ, CERTAIN MISSIONS AND PERSONNEL IN IRAQ http://www.cpa-iraq.org/regulations/ 20040627_CPAORD_17_Status_of_Coalition__Rev__with_Annex_A.pdf SCOTUSblog -- September 24, 2007 MILITARY COMMISSIONS' POWERS BROADENED by Lyle Denniston http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/archives/2007/09/military_commis_2.html Balkinization -- September 26, 2007 WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE KHADR DECISION by Gabor Rona http://balkin.blogspot.com/2007/09/whats-wrong-with-khadr-decision.html TomDispatch -- September 23, 2007 FREEDOM AS THEFT: HONORING AMERICAN LIBERATORS By Tom Engelhardt http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174840/bush_s_free_world_and_welcome_to_it Salon -- September 20, 2007 BUSH'S STAIRWAY TO PARADISE Hoping that history will somehow vindicate him, the president has entered a phase of decadent perversity. By Sidney Blumenthal http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/09/20/bush_draper/ "THE WAR COUNCIL" (2002-2003) David Addington, Counsel to the VP Jim Haynes, DoD general Counsel Alberto Gonzales, Counsel to the President Tim Flanigan, asst. to Gonzales John Yoo, AAG DOJ OLC COUNSEL TO THE PRESIDENT Alberto Gonzales Harriet Miers ? COUNSEL TO THE VICE PRESIDENT David Addington Shannen Coffin ATTORNEY GENERAL John Ashcroft Alberto Gonzalez SOLICITOR GENERAL Ted Olson Paul Clement OLC Patrick Philbin Jack Goldsmith ? * * * New York Times Magazine -- September 23, 2007 THE DISSENTER Majority of One Stevens at the Supreme Court. By Jeffrey Rosen http://select.nytimes.com/preview/2007/09/23/magazine/1154689944149.html No Comment (Harper's) -- September 19, 2007 BAIT AND SWITCH IN THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE by Scott Horton http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/09/hbc-90001244 The National Law Journal October 1, 2007 Book Review A VIEW FROM INSIDE -- THE TERROR PRESIDENCY, JACK GOLDSMITH by Louis Fisher http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1190797378582 Ruzathullah v. Gates, Civ. No. 06-1707 for the proposition that Salon -- September 20, 2007 BUSH'S STAIRWAY TO PARADISE Hoping that history will somehow vindicate him, the president has entered a phase of decadent perversity. By Sidney Blumenthal http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/09/20/bush_draper/ Pluto Press -- THE GUANTANAMO FILES: THE STORIES OF THE 759 DETAINEES IN AMERICA'S ILLEGAL PRISON by Andy Worthington Pluto Press (2007.09.11) / Paperback / 224 pages / ISBN-13: 978-0745326641 http://www.plutobooks.com/cgi-local/nplutobrows.pl?chkisbn=9780745326641 The Talking Dog -- September 17, 2007 TD BLOG INTERVIEW WITH ANDY WORTHINGTON http://thetalkingdog.com/archives2/000920.html Guantanamo Blog -- September 15, 2007 UNDERWEAR ALERT by Candace Gorman http://gtmoblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/underwear-alert.html my 2007 Utah Law Review 345 (2007) article “Above the Law: Unlawful Executive Authorizations Regarding Detainee Treatment, Secret Renditions, Domestic Spying, and Claims to Unchecked Executive Power” can be accessed at: www.law.utah.edu/_webfiles/ULRarticles/150/150.pdf ABC News -- September 14, 2007 CIA BANS WATER-BOARDING IN TERROR INTERROGATIONS By Brian Ross, Richard Esposito & Martha Raddatz http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/09/cia-bans-water-.html Wednesday, September 05, 2007 Jousting over timing of first DTA review Posted by Lyle Denniston at 10:17 PM http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/archives/2007/09/jousting_over_t.html TAKEOVER: THE RETURN OF THE IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY AND THE SUBVERSION OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY by Charlie Savage Little, Brown and Company (2007.09.05) ISBN-10: 0316118044 / ISBN-13: 978-0316118040 / Hardcover / 336 pages / $25.99 http://www.hbgusa.com/books/15/0316118044/index.html New York Times Magazine -- September 9, 2007 CONSCIENCE OF A CONSERVATIVE By Jeffrey Rosen http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/magazine/09rosen.html Balkinization -- September 4, 2007 MRS. ASHCROFT'S TONGUE-WAGGING, AND OTHER TALES FROM THE "UNITARY" EXECUTIVE by Marty Lederman http://balkin.blogspot.com/2007/09/mrs-ashcrofts-tongue-wagging-and-other.html JURIST -- August 29, 2007 SUING GONZALES by Jordan Paust http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumy/2007/08/suing-gonzales.php No Comment -- August 29, 2007 ANOTHER VERDICT ON ABU GHRAIB BY Scott Horton http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/08/hbc-90001049 No Comment (Harper's Magazine) -- September 1, 2007 THE UNFINISHED STORY OF ABU GHRAIB by Scott Horton http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/09/hbc-90001096 August 25, 2007 MILITARY MISGIVINGS MOUNT OVER BUSH TORTURE ORDER by Scott Horton http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/08/hbc-90001021 Obsidian Wings -- August 23, 2007 BUSH'S SPEECH by hilzoy http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2007/08/by-hilzoy-once-.html No Comment (Harper's Magazine) -- August 25, 2007 ON THE USE AND ABUSE OF HISTORY by Scott Horton http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/08/hbc-90001025 Harper's -- August 19, 2007 JOSE PADILLA AND THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF JUSTICE by Scott Horton http://harpers.org/archive/2007/08/hbc-90000925 New York Times -- December 4, 2006 VIDEO IS A WINDOW INTO A TERROR SUSPECT’S ISOLATION By Deborah Sontag http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/04/us/04detain.html Washington Post -- August 17, 2007 THE REAL VERDICT ON JOSE PADILLA By Jenny S. Martinez http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- dyn/content/article/2007/08/16/AR2007081601771.html Jamie Mayerfeld, PLAYING BY OUR OWN RULES: HOW U.S. MARGINALIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW LED TO TORTURE, 20 Harvard Human Rights J. 89 (2007). http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/hrj/current/about.shtml JURIST -- July 25, 2007 GUTTING THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS IN THE 'WAR ON TERROR' Benjamin Davis http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumy/2007/07/gutting-geneva-conventions-in-war- on.php Toronto Globe and Mail -- August 11, 2007 CANADIAN BAR ASSOCIATION MOVES TO SUPPORT RIGHTS OF KHADR by Kirk Makin http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070811.wmakin20811/BNStory/ National/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20070811.wmakin20811 August 10, 2007 DRIVE-BY OCCUPATION by Jon Carroll http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/10/DD32RF55D.DTL August 1, 2007 THE JEEP, THE HUMVEE, AND HOW WAR HAS CHANGED By Jon Grinspan http://www.americanheritage.com/events/articles/web/20070801-jeep-humvee-wwII- iraq.shtml The New Yorker -- August 13, 2007 THE BLACK SITES -- A RARE LOOK INSIDE THE CIA’S SECRET INTERROGATION PROGRAM by Jane Mayer http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/08/13/070813fa_fact_mayer?printable=true Washington Post -- August 5, 2007 REPORT: HARSH METHODS USED ON 9/11 SUSPECT Article Details Torture That Mastermind Said He Endured By Josh White, Julie Tate and Joby Warrick http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- dyn/content/article/2007/08/04/AR2007080401497.html No Comment -- August 6, 2007 THE DARKENING by Scott Horton http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/08/hbc-90000758 August 6, 2007 THE BOOT IS DESCENDING by Scott Horton http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/08/hbc-90000742 Huffington Post -- July 31, 2007 GARBAGE GUANTANAMO-STYLE by Candace Gorman http://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-candace-gorman-/garbage- guantanamostyle_b_58611.html House Armed Services Committee -- July 26, 2007 HEARING - UPHOLDING THE PRINCIPLE OF HABEAS CORPUS FOR DETAINEES Witnesses: Stephen Oleskey, partner, Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr LLP David Keene, chairman, American Conservative Union Patrick Philbin, former Associate Deputy Attorney General at DOJ LTC Stephen Abraham USAR http://gtmodocuments.blogspot.com/2007/07/abraham-testimony.html Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) at West Point -- July 25, 2007 CTC REPORT ON THE 516 CSRT UNCLASSIFIED SUMMARIES by LTC Joe Felter, Ph.D and Jarret Brachman, Ph.D * CTC CSRT Report: http://ctc.usma.edu/CTC-CSRT-Report-072407.pdf * CTC Response to the Seton Hall CSRT Study: http://ctc.usma.edu/CTC-CSRT-ANNEX-A.pdf Opinio Juris -- July 31, 2007 THE SPECIFIC COSTS OF ARBITRARY DETENTION AND TORTURE: A RESPONSE TO EUGENE KONTOROVICH by Ariel Meyerstein http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1185831794.shtml FindLaw -- July 27, 2007 MODEST IMPROVEMENTS CANNOT SAVE AN INHERENTLY FLAWED PROCESS AT GUANTANAMO By Jonathan Hafetz http://writ.lp.findlaw.com/commentary/20070727_hafetz.html Bakinization -- July 26, 2007 COMMON ARTICLE 3 AND THE NON-UNITARY EXECUTIVE BRANCH by Marty Lederman http://balkin.blogspot.com/2007/07/common-article-3-and-non-unitary.html July 26, 2007 WAR CRIMES AND THE WHITE HOUSE The Dishonor in a Tortured New 'Interpretation' of the Geneva Conventions By P.X. Kelley and Robert F. Turner http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- dyn/content/article/2007/07/25/AR2007072501881.html Law Council of Australia -- July 24, 2007 United States v. Hicks, Guantanamo Bay Cuba FINAL REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT OBSERVER FOR THE LAW COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA by Lex Lasry QC http://www.lawcouncil.asn.au/shared/2440377524.pdf Salon -- July 24, 2007 JOHN YOO -- THEN AND NOW by Glenn Greenwald http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/07/24/yoo/index.html http://www.defenselink.mil/news/courtofmilitarycommissionreview.html New York Times -- July 23, 2007 UNLIKELY ADVERSARY ARISES TO CRITICIZE DETAINEE HEARINGS by William Glaberson http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/23/us/23gitmo.html Guantanamo Blog -- July 23, 2007 STEPHEN ABRAHAM IN THE NYT by Candace Gorman http://gtmoblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/stephen-abraham-in-nyt.html 1) USCA D.C. Cir. -- Bismullah v. Gates, No. 06-1197 Parhat v. Gates, No. 06-1397 July 20, 2007 ON MOTIONS Before: GINSBURG, Chief Judge, and HENDERSON and ROGERS, Circuit Judges. Opinion for the court filed by Chief Judge GINSBURG. Concurring opinion filed by Circuit Judge ROGERS. SCOTUSblog -- July 20, 2007 WIDER INQUIRY INTO DETAINEE CONFINEMENT ORDERED by Lyle Denniston http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/archives/2007/07/searching_inqui.html SCOTUSblog -- July 20, 2007 MILITARY APPEALS COURT JUDGES CHALLENGED by Lyle Denniston http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/archives/2007/07/military_appeal.html 2) July 13, 2007 THE "WAR ON TERROR": CRIMINAL LAW MINUS OR LAW OF WAR PLUS? by David Glazier http://natseclaw.typepad.com/natseclaw/2007/07/national-securi.html SULMASY ON NATIONAL SECURITY COURTS by Chris Borgen http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1184360250.shtml Glenn M. Sulmasy Associate Professor of Law Department of Humanities, Law Section U.S. Coast Guard Academy http://www.cga.edu/display.aspx?id=3094 CDR Glenn M. Sulmasy USCG x) GUANTANAMO New York Times -- July 11, 2007 THE TERRORISTS' COURT by Jack L. Goldsmith and Neal Katyal http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/11/opinion/11katyal.html Opinio Juris -- July 11, 2007 GOLDSMITH AND KATYAL PROPOSE A "NATIONAL SECURITY COURT" by Roger Alford http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1184173762.shtml No Comment -- July 11, 2007 A NEW COUNTER-TERRORISM REGIME by Scott Horton http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/07/hbc-90000485 JURIST -- July 12, 2007 AGAINST A US "TERRORISTS' COURT" by Benjamin Davis http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumy/2007/07/against-us-terrorist-court.php X) OP-ED The Sunday Times (UK) -- October 7, 2007 BUSH'S TORTURERS FOLLOW WHERE THE NAZIS LED by Andrew Sullivan http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/ andrew_sullivan/article2602564.ece New York Times -- October 14, 2007 THE 'GOOD GERMANS' AMONG US By Frank Rich http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/opinion/14rich2.html Hullabaloo -- July 29, 2007 THE 34 SENATOR GAMBIT by digby http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/34-senator-gambit-by-digby-question- of.html Balkinization -- July 20, 2007 THE CIA INTERROGATION EXECUTIVE ORDER: WELL, DID YOU REALLY EXPECT ANYTHING BETTER? by Marty Lederman http://balkin.blogspot.com/2007/07/cia-interrogation-executive-order-well.html FindLaw -- July 23, 2007 THE MISINTERPRETER-IN-CHIEF By Joanne Mariner http://writ.lp.findlaw.com/mariner/20070723.html Balkinization -- July 13, 2007 CONSTITUTIONAL HARDBALL IN THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION by Jack Balkin http://balkin.blogspot.com/2007/07/constitutional-hardball-in-bush.html * * * PROJECT TO ENFORCE THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS (PEGC) http://www.pegc.us Charles B. Gittings Jr. Fort Bragg, California cbgittingsyahoo.com +1-707-964-2151