2008.11.20 - PEGC Update
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1) JUDGE LEON ORDERS FIVE OF SIX DETAINEES RELEASED

USDC D.D.C. --

BOUMEDIENE v. BUSH, No. 04-cv-1166 (RJL)

November 20, 2008
MEMORANDUM ORDER

https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2004cv1166-276


DOJ --

November 20, 2008
STATEMENT OF PETER A. CARR ON THE RULING IN BOUMEDIENE V. BUSH

http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2008/November/08-opa-1035.html


New York Times --

November 20, 2008
JUDGE ORDERS FIVE DETAINEES FREED FROM GUANTANAMO
by William Glaberson

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/us/21guantanamo.html


National Security Advisors --

November 20, 2008
JUDGE LEON'S WRITTEN OPINION
by Bobby Chesney

http://natseclaw.typepad.com/natseclaw/2008/11/judge-leons-wri.html



2) AG MUKASEY

Washington Post --

November 21, 2008
MUKASEY COLLAPSES DURING ADDRESS IN WASHINGTON; HOSPITALIZED
by Carrie Johnson and Clarence Williams

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/11/21/ST2008112100094.html


* Here is the speech he was giving to the annual meeting of the Federalist
Society when he collapsed -- another his of disgracefully dishonest apologies
for the Bush administration's corruption and war crimes, together with an
similar op-ed on the Boumediene decision from tomorrow's WSJ...


DOJ --

November 20, 2008
REMARKS TO THE 2008 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY
Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey

http://www.usdoj.gov/ag/speeches/2008/ag-speech-081120.html


Wall Street Journal --

November 21, 2008
AL QAEDA DETAINEES AND CONGRESS'S DUTY
Habeas corpus hearings could set terrorists free inside the U.S.
by Michael B. Mukasey

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122722814865546291.html



3) HABEAS CORPUS

Virginia Law Weekly --

October 24, 2008
DICTA: BOUMEDIENE v. BUSH AND THE "HALF LIFE" OF THE ACADEMY
by Prof. G. Edward White

http://www.lawweekly.org/?module=displaystory&story_id=2215&edition_id=
101&format=html

* Paul Halliday & G. Edward White, THE SUSPENSION CLAUSE: ENGLISH TEXT, IMPERIAL
CONTEXTS, AND AMERICAN IMPLICATIONS, 94 Va. L. Rev. 575 (2008), available at:

http://www.virginialawreview.org/content/pdfs/94/575.pdf



4) OP-ED

The Talking Dog --

November 20, 2008
TD BLOG INTERVIEW WITH BUZ EISENBERG

http://thetalkingdog.com/archives2/001204.html


Harper's --

November 20, 2008
GRADING GATES
by Scott Horton

http://harpers.org/archive/2008/11/hbc-90003876

* PEGC Comment:

There are few people who I respect as much as Scott Horton, but this is a case
where I must respectfully but strongly disagree. While I recognize Gates was a
vast improvement over the incompetence, corruption, and malfeasance of Rumsfeld,
so what?

Any common fool would have been an improvement over Rumsfeld, and the bottom
line on both men is identical. Gates is complicit in the unlawful detentions at
Guantanamo Bay, the torture, the illegal kangaroo courts, the idiocy in
Afghanistan, and above all, the RAPE of Iraq. He's a war criminal and a disgrace
to his office.

Neither do I agree that he's performed especially well. DoD is a bloated mess
riddled with incompetence and corruption even now, and Iraq and Afghanistan are
both just a bad joke in military terms -- if we ever had to fight a real war
with these people in charge, we'd lose.

Of all the areas where we need a clean break from the delusional thinking,
criminality, and shameless corruption of the Bush administration, DoD is second
only to the festering disaster at DOJ. Some things cannot be excused, and Robert
Gates is just as unfit for his high office as AG Mukasey is.

-- Charles Gittings


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