2009.03.22 - PEGC Update ========================== 1) TORTURE The Daily Beast -- April 5, 2009 ARE REPUBLICANS BLACKMAILING OBAMA? by Scott Horton http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-04-05/are-republicans-blackmailing-obama Newsweek -- April 3, 2009 "HOLY HELL" OVER TORTURE MEMOS Attorney General Eric Holder wants to release classified Bush-era interrogation memos. But U.S. intel officials are fiercely lobbying the White House to block him from moving forward. by Michael Isikoff http://www.newsweek.com/id/192314 Seton Hall Law -- April 1, 2009 GENERALS KNEW GUANTANAMO DETAINEES WERE TORTURED Press Release http://law.shu.edu/administration/public_relations/press_releases/2009/shl_students_reveal_generals_4109.htm Consortiumnews.com -- April 1, 2009 LEAHY BAILS ON 'TRUTH COMMISSION' PLAN By Charlotte Dennett http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/040109b.html Washington Post -- March 29, 2009 DETAINEE'S HARSH TREATMENT FOILED NO PLOTS Waterboarding, Rough Interrogation of Abu Zubaida Produced False Leads, Officials Say by Peter Finn and Joby Warrick http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/28/AR2009032802066.html New York Times -- March 28, 2009 SPANISH COURT WEIGHS INQUIRY ON TORTURE FOR 6 BUSH-ERA OFFICIALS by Marlise Simons http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/world/europe/29spain.html?ref=europe Harper's -- March 28, 2009 BUSH TORTURE LAWYERS TARGETED IN CRIMINAL PROBE by Scott Horton http://harpers.org/archive/2009/03/hbc-90004640 The Public Record -- March 27, 2009 SENATE COMMITTEE REPORT TO REVEAL NEW DETAILS IMPLICATING BUSH OFFICIALS IN TORTURE by Jason Leopold http://www.pubrecord.org/torture/797-levin-set-to-release-full-declassifed-report-on-torture-of-detainees.html Associated Press -- March 27, 2009 EX-STATE DEPT. LAWYER DECRIES TORTURE AFTER 9/11 by Andrew O. Selsky http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gjD0weHpCkMwMc94iRSiCgw0UAMQD976KNNG0 2) THE DETAINEE CASES Toronto Star -- April 3, 2009 PENTAGON FIRES KHADR'S LAWYER by Michelle Shephard http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/613493 SCOTUSblog -- April 2, 2009 MAJOR EXTENSION OF BOUMEDIENE by Lyle Denniston http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/major-extension-of-boumediene/ Associated Press -- April 2, 2009 JUDGE: BAGRAM PRISONERS CAN CHALLENGE DETENTION by Nedra Pickler http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5inrssFARYO4US7mMu27sqB9tc7WwD97AE6Q80 USDC D.D.C. -- AL MAQALEH v. GATES, No. 06-CV-1669 (JDB) HAJI WAZIR v. GATES, No. 06-CV-1697 (JDB) AL BAKR v. OBAMA, No. 08-CV-1307 (JDB) AL-NAJAR v. GATES, No. 08-CV-2143 (JDB) April 2, 2009 * MEMORANDUM OPINION https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2006cv1669-34 * ORDER https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2006cv1697-30 Andy Worthington -- April 1, 2009 BRITAIN'S GUANTANAMO: AN INTRODUCTION by Andy Worthington http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2009/04/01/britains-guantanamo-an-introduction/ SCOTUSblog -- March 31, 2009 DETAINEE INFORMER WINS RELEASE by Lyle Denniston http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/detainee-informer-wins-release/ Cageprisoners -- March 26, 2009 MOAZZAM BEGG IN CONVERSATION WITH BINYAM MOHAMED http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=28464 3) THE WARS Harper's -- March 31, 2009 CHENEY'S SNUFF SQUAD by Scott Horton http://harpers.org/archive/2009/03/hbc-90004657 The New Yorker -- March 30, 2009 (April 6, 2009 issue) SYRIA CALLING The Obama Administration's chance to engage in a Middle East peace. by Seymour M. Hersh http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/04/06/090406fa_fact_hersh 4) OP-ED Consortiumnews.com -- April 5, 2009 COWARDICE IN THE TIME OF TORTURE by Ray McGovern http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/040509c.html March 28, 2009 WELCOME TO VIETNAM, MR. PRESIDENT by Ray McGovern http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/032809a.html * * * PROJECT TO ENFORCE THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS (PEGC) http://www.pegc.us PEGC Blog http://pegc.blogspot.com/ Charles B. Gittings Jr. Fort Bragg, California cbgittingsyahoo.com +1-707-964-2151