2005.11.03 - PEGC Update ========================== 1) US WAR CRIMES BY POLICY New York Times -- November 2, 2005 DETAINEE POLICY SHARPLY DIVIDES BUSH OFFICIALS By Tim Golden and Eric Schmitt http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/02/politics/02detain.html Washington Post -- November 2, 2005 CIA HOLDS TERROR SUSPECTS IN SECRET PRISONS Debate Is Growing Within Agency About Legality and Morality of Overseas System Set Up After 9/11 By Dana Priest http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/01/AR2005110101644.html The Financial Times -- November 2 2005 EVIDENCE CIA HAS SECRET JAILS IN EUROPE By Demetri Sevastopulo, Guy Dinmore, Caroline Daniel, and Jan Cienski http://news.ft.com/cms/s/86734122-4be9-11da-997b-0000779e2340.html Washington Post -- November 3, 2005 NATIONAL SECURITY ONLINE DISCUSSION Dana Priest, Host http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2005/10/28/DI2005102800907.html WAMU / The Dianne Rehm Show -- November 3, 2005 CIA SECRET PRISONS A panel discusses the covert prison system set up by the CIA after 9/11... David Cole, professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center. US Senator Carl Levin (D-MI). Dana Priest, Washington Post reporter. David Rivkin, attorney and former DOJ official during the Reagan administration. Michael Scheuer, former CIA analyst. http://www.wamu.org/programs/dr/05/11/03.php 2) NEW ORDER In re GUANTANAMO DETAINEES CASES The Calendar and Case Managment Committee yesterday issued an order coordinating all of the Guantanamo Cases in regard to motions on the existing protective order and procedures under the management of US Magistrate Judge Alan Key - and I do mean ALL 173 cases, of which 13 are closed. The order itself provides a complete list, and I've prepared a text version also. USDC D.D.C. -- ORDER (CCMC/GK), lead CA No. 02-cv-299 (CKK), dkt. no. 193 (D.D.C. 2005.11.02), available at: http://www.justicescholars.org/pegc/archive/In_re_Gitmo_II/order_CMC-GK_20051102.pdf * ASCII text list of all cases: http://www.justicescholars.org/pegc/archive/In_re_Gitmo_II/case_list_20051102_n.txt * U.S. Magistrate Judge Alan Kay: http://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/kay-bio.html 3) TORTURE HRW -- Novemeber 2, 2005 REJECT TORTURE AS POLICY OPTION TORTURE DEBATE SPOTLIGHTS IMPORTANCE OF GLOBAL BAN http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/11/01/usdom11956.htm 4) OP-ED New York Times -- November 3, 2005 THE PRISON PUZZLE Editorial http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/03/opinion/03thur1.html Washington Post -- November 3, 2005 REBELLION AGAINST ABUSE Editorial http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/02/AR2005110202742.html Balkinization -- November 2, 2005 THE CONSTITUTIONAL TRIFECTA: A PROBLEM OF EXECUTIVE OVERSIGHT By Jack Balkin http://balkin.blogspot.com/2005/11/constitutional-trifecta-problem-of.html TomDispatch -- November 2, 2005 SO MUCH FOR STRICT CONSTRUCTION by David Cole and Tom Engelhardt http://www.antiwar.com/engelhardt/?articleid=7870 Regards, Charly Charles Gittings Lake Chelan cbgittingsyahoo.com PROJECT TO ENFORCE THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS (PEGC) http://www.justicescholars.org/pegc/ * * *