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Bauer to bring political edge to White House counsel's office
Washington :: DC :: USA | 14 days ago
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Shear Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, November 13, 2009; 1:06 PM President Obama's new chief counsel is a prominent Democratic lawyer who has spent the past two decades helping his party's top candidates and officials navigate the often conflicting...
Tags: guantanamo, 9/11, New York City, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Guantanamo Bay, Barack Obama, White House, house counsel, Greg Craig, military commission, Washington, Anita Dunn, Robert Bauer, Luo people, Punahou School alumni, Politics, Mustafa al-Hawsawi, War crimes, Waterboarding, Ramzi Binalshibh, Baloch people, Islamic terrorism, Interrogations, Law Crime, Michael E. Toner, Bauer, Date of birth missing, Perkins Coie, Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Internments, Human rights abuses
Senate rejects bid to restrict Guantanamo trials
Havana :: Cuba | 22 days ago
Credibility The Senate on Thursday rejected a measure that would have required prisoners charged with involvement in the September 11 attacks to stand trial in a military court rather than a criminal court. Congress has voted several times this year to restrict...
Tags: Lindsey Graham, Senate, Obama, military commission, federal courts, senator rejected, Guantanamo Bay, senator vote
White House Seeks to Continue Certain Cases at Guantanamo Bay
Washington :: DC :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Last week, in part to challenge the legitimacy of the hearings, attorneys for one defendant filed an emergency writ in federal court in an attempt to stop them. The government first asked for a 120-day suspension of proceedings at Guantanamo in January...
Tags: Guantanamo Bay, Dorgan, Barack Obama, military commission, Washington
China watched for leadership sign
Beijing :: China | 2 months ago
Credibility The four-day session is widely expected to promote Vice President Xi Jinping to the powerful military commission. This would make him a clear front-runner to succeed Hu Jintao as party leader in 2012, and president in 2013. Analysts say the party will...
Tags: China, Hu Jintao, Communist Party, military commission, Beijing
Pentagon voids Khadr proceedings
Montreal :: Canada | 10 months ago
Credibility Now that it has emerged that military prosecutors have withdrawn and refiled the charges against him, the trial date will need to be reset. "As of today, there is no trial date in the military commission case of Omar Khadr,"Cdr. Kuebler said in his e-mail.
Tags: guantanamo, Omar Khadr, war on terror, Guantanamo Bay, trial date, military commission, Cuba, defence lawyer, U.S, Pentagon
New filing for Gitmo detainee Khadr
Justice :: IL :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Attorney Karl Thompson, one of Khadr's lawyers noted those legal challenges, "One is whether the military commission in Guantanamo has jurisdiction over people who were juveniles at the time they committed the alleged offenses, so whether the military...
Tags: Omar Khadr, military commission, Guantanamo
What the Hamdan Sentence Means for Gitmo
Ottawa :: Canada | about 1 year ago
Credibility Salim Hamdan's sentence signals the end of Guantánamo that will shock those watching the conclusion of the first full U.S. war crimes trial since the Nuremberg Trials, the military jury that convicted Salim Hamdan of providing "material support for terrorism"...
Tags: guantanamo, Omar Khadr, Mr. Khadr, Guantanamo Bay, Brownback, U.S, war crimes, military commission
Subplots on Guantánamo
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility July 4, 2008 The long legal story of the Bush administration’s effort to prosecute detainees at Guantánamo Bay , Cuba, now has two fast-moving subplots...One plot will proceed in a federal courthouse in Washington, where lawyers for a detainee filed papers...
US court dismisses Guantanamo detainee's appeal
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility A US court Friday rejected an appeal filed by Guantanamo detainee Omar Ahmed Khadr seeking to have the military tribunal charges against him dismissed. T he US Court for Appeals for the District of Colombia ruled that it did not have jurisdiction to dismiss...
Tags: guantanamo, war on terror, Omar Khadr, Omar Ahmed Khadr, Mr. Khadr, appeal court, U.S. Appeals Court, military commission, Guantanamo Bay, detainees scheduled
McCain slams court, Bam on Gitmo ruling
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Otero/AP Senator John McCain at Friday's town hall meeting in New Jersey, where he bashed the Supreme Court and presidential rival Barack Obama...The double-barrel blast came as he spoke to voters in New Jersey , a solidly Democratic state in recent presidential...
Tags: supreme courts, Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, US Supreme Court, The Supreme Court, U.S. Supreme Court, courts rules, George W. Bush, John McCain, habeas corpus, military commission
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