2004.11.23 - PEGC Update ======================== 1) HAMDAN v. RUMSFELD Some exciting news: Swift and Katyal have filed a direct appeal to the Supreme Court. Washington Post -- November 23, 2004; 12:50 p.m. ET GUANTANAMO DETAINEE ASKS SUPREME COURT TO INTERVENE HAMDAN'S LAWYERS ASK JUSTICES TO RULE ON LEGALITY OF MILITARY COMMISSIONS By Carol D. Leonnig, Washington Post Staff Writer http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7386-2004Nov23.html Seattle Post-Intelligencer / AP -- November 23, 2004; 8:52 a.m. PT GUANTANAMO TRIALS APPEALED AT HIGH COURT By Gina Holland, Associated Press Writer http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1154&slug=Scotus%20Guantanamo%20Trials 2) GUANTANAMO BAY Worldpress.org -- November 22, 2004 THE OTHER GUANTANAMO BAY By Erik Schechter, contributing editor http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/1981.cfm 3) THE ISRAELI CONNECTION Washington Report -- November 2004 NEW SPY INVESTIGATION SUPPRESSED AT CRUCIAL JUNCTURE By Richard H. Curtiss http://www.wrmea.com/archives/November_2004/0411026.html 4) OP-ED Thge American Prospect -- November 23, 2004 OBJECTION OVERRULED Alberto Gonzales tried to expand the president's power. Luckily, the courts wouldn't let him get away with it. By Deborah Pearlstein http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=8900 Washington Times -- November 23, 2004 COUNTERTERRORISM AND LIBERTIES IN LEAGUE By Bruce Fein http://washingtontimes.com/commentary/20041122-095741-7539r.htm I've been wondering when the apologists would start singing this tune, but it's bit late. To enact such legislation now is meerely an admission the administrations detainee policies have been illegal from the start... And Congress has no authority to authorize war crimes in any case. CounterPunch -- November 18, 2004 THE DEMS ARE CAVING ON GONZALES: WAR CRIMINAL AS ATTORNEY GENERAL? By Prof. Francis A. Boyle http://www.counterpunch.org/boyle11182004.html Regards, Charly Charles Gittings Lake Chelan cbgittings@verizon.net +1-509-687-7709 PROJECT TO ENFORCE THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS (PEGC) PEGC.no-ip.info PEGC Update PEGC.no-ip.info/PEGC_Update.html * * *