2005.10.30 - PEGC Update
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1) SCOOTER LIBBY INDICTED

DOJ Office of Special Counsel --

October 28, 2005
WHITE HOUSE OFFICIAL I. LEWIS LIBBY INDICTED

* Press Release (PDF):

http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/osc/documents/libby_pr_28102005.pdf

* Indictment (PDF):

http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/osc/documents/libby_indictment_28102005.pdf

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/28/AR2005102801086.html


Washington Post --

October 29, 2005
CHENEY AIDE LIBBY IS INDICTED
Rove Spared But Remains Under Scrutiny
By Jim VandeHei and Carol D. Leonnig

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/28/AR2005102802306.html

October 28, 2005
TRANSCRIPT OF SPECIAL COUNSEL FITZGERALD'S PRESS CONFERENCE

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/28/AR2005102801340.html


New York Times --

October 30, 2005
INDICTMENT GIVES GLIMPSE INTO A SECRETIVE OPERATION 
By Douglas Jehl

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/politics/30indict.html?pagewanted=2


Salon --

October 28, 2005
ALL THE VICE PRESIDENT'S MEN
By Juan Cole

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/10/28/vice_president/


The Nation --

October 28, 2005
A GRAVE INDICTMENT, BUT GRAVE QUESTIONS REMAIN
By David Corn

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames?bid=3&pid=32370

July 16, 2003
A WHITE HOUSE SMEAR
By David Corn

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames?bid=3&pid=823


The Nation --

October 26, 2005 (web only) 
SCOTT RITTER AND SEYMOUR HERSH: IRAQ CONFIDENTIAL

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051114/ritter



2) HAMDAN v. RUMSFELD

Slate --

October 27, 2005
HEAR ME, HEAR ME
The case of the year that the Supreme Court may duck.
By Emily Bazelon

http://www.slate.com/id/2128917/nav/tap1/


Balkinization --

October 27, 2005
HAMDAN AGAIN
By Oona Hathaway

http://balkin.blogspot.com/2005/10/hamdan-again.html



3) GUANTANAMO BAY

BBC --

October 26, 2005
GUANTANAMO MAN 'WANTS TO STARVE'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4378282.stm


New York Times --

October 27, 2005
STRIKING GUANTANAMO DETAINEES GAIN IN RULING
By Neil A. Lewis

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/27/politics/27gitmo.html


Aljazeera --

October 26,  2005
ORDEAL OF ALJAZEERA CAMERAMAN [SAMI MUHY AL-DIN AL-HAJJ]
By Asim Khan & Mahfoud El Gartit

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/021AA43D-0DC8-4EC1-835E-41EEBF47C27A.htm


Al Ahram --

October 27, 2005
HELL IN GITMO
by Sharif Abdel-Kouddous

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/766/in4.htm


October 25, 2005
WHITE HOUSE SEEKS EXCEPTION IN ABUSE BAN
By Eric Schmitt

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/25/politics/25detain.html



4) NEW PAPERS

Glazier, David W., "Precedents Lost: The Neglected History of the Military
Commission". Virginia Journal of International Law, Vol. 46, No. 1, Fall 2005.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=811045


Chesney, Robert, "Leaving Guantanamo: The Law of International Detainee
Transfers". University of Richmond Law Review, 2006.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=827604



5) JOHN YOO

Boston Globe --

October 23, 2005
WAR COUNSEL - CONSERVATIVE LEGAL SCHOLAR JOHN YOO
By Christopher Shea

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2005/10/23/war_counsel/


The University of Chicago Press --

THE POWERS OF WAR AND PEACE:
THE CONSTITUTION AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS AFTER 9/11
By John Yoo

Hardcover, 378 p., $29.00, Fall 2005, ISBN: 0-226-96031-5

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/159387.ctl

An interview with John Yoo, author of The Powers of War and Peace: The
Constitution and Foreign Affairs after 9/11

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/960315in.html



6) OP-ED

Washington Post --

October 26, 2005
VICE PRESIDENT FOR TORTURE
Editorial

http://www.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/25/AR2005102501388.html


Baltimore Chronicle & Sentinel --

October 29, 2005
THE NEW COMMANDMENT ON POLITICAL MURDERS:
THOU SHALT NOT KILL - BUT WE WILL
by Liaquat Ali Khan

http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/2005/102905AliKhan.shtml


truthout / New York Times --

October 30, 2005
ONE STEP CLOSER TO THE BIG ENCHILADA
By Frank Rich

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/103005X.shtml



Regards,

Charly


Charles Gittings
Lake Chelan

cbgittings<at>yahoo.com


PROJECT TO ENFORCE THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS (PEGC)

http://www.justicescholars.org/pegc/

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