2009.01.09 - PEGC Extra
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1) DOJ RELEASES MORE OLC MEMOS

National Security Advisors --

January 8, 2009
THE GREAT OLC DOCUMENT DUMP OF 2009
by Steve Vladeck

http://www.natseclaw.com/natseclaw/2009/01/the-great-olc-document-dump-of-2009.html


DOJ --

Jack Goldsmith, "PROTECTED PERSON" STATUS IN OCCUPIED IRAQ UNDER THE FOURTH
GENEVA CONVENTION, DOJ Office of Legal Counsel (2004.03.14).

http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/2004/gc4mar18.pdf


Jay Bybee, STATUS OF TALIBAN FORCES UNDER ARTICLE 4 OF THE THIRD GENEVA
CONVENTION OF 1949, DOJ Office of Legal Counsel (2002.02.07).

http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/2002/pub-artc4potusdetermination.pdf


Jay Bybee, AUTHORITY OF THE PRESIDENT UNDER DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL LAW TO
USE MILITARY FORCE AGAINST IRAQ, DOJ Office of Legal Counsel (2002.10.23).

http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/2002/iraq-opinion-final.pdf


John Yoo, EFFECT OF A RECENT UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION ON THE
AUTHORITY OF THE PRESIDENT UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW TO USE MILITARY FORCE AGAINST
IRAQ, DOJ Office of Legal Counsel (2002.11.08).

http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/2002/iraq-unscr-final.pdf


John Yoo, WHETHER FALSE STATEMENTS OR OMISSIONS IN IRAQ’S WEAPONS OF MASS
DESTRUCTION DECLARATION WOULD CONSTITUTE A "FURTHER MATERIAL BREACH" UNDER U.N.
SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 1441, DOJ Office of Legal Counsel (2002.12.07).

http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/2002/materialbreach.pdf


Patrick Philbin, LEGALITY OF THE USE OF MILITARY COMMISSIONS TO TRY TERRORISTS,
DOJ Office of Legal Counsel (2001.11.06).

http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/2001/pub-millcommfinal.pdf



2) NEW PROTECTIVE ORDER

Judge Thomas Hogan issued a protective order Wednesday that applies to those
detainee cases which involve "Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmentalized
Information". Today he issued an amended version of that order...


USDC D.D.C. --

AMENDED PROTECTIVE ORDER FOR HABEAS CASES INVOLVING TOP
SECRET / SENSITIVE COMPARTMENTED INFORMATION
AND
PROCEDURES FOR COUNSEL ACCESS TO DETAINEES AT THE UNITED STATES
NAVAL BASE IN GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA, IN HABEAS CASES INVOLVING
TOP SECRET/SENSITIVE COMPARTMENTED INFORMATION

https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2008cv2083-12

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