2006.04.10 - PEGC Update ========================== 1) THE CIA LEAK truthout -- April 10, 2006 BUSH AND CHENEY DISCUSSED PLAME PRIOR TO LEAK By Jason Leopold http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041006Z.shtml Newsweek -- April 9, 2006 [April 17, 2006 issue] THE LEAKER IN CHIEF? Is he a CEO who stays above the fray? Or did he give the go-ahead to strike back at critics over prewar intel? A presidential mystery. By Michael Isikoff and Evan Thomas http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12228726/site/newsweek/ Washington Post -- April 9, 2006 A 'CONCERTED EFFORT' TO DISCREDIT BUSH CRITIC Prosecutor Describes Cheney, Libby as Key Voices Pitching Iraq-Niger Story By Barton Gellman and Dafna Linzer http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/08/AR2006040800916.html 2) IRAN The New Yorker -- April 9, 2006 [April 17, 2006 issue] THE IRAN PLANS Would President Bush go to war to stop Tehran from getting the bomb? by Seymour M. Hersh http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060417fa_fact CNN -- April 10, 2006 HERSH: U.S. MULLS NUCLEAR OPTION FOR IRAN Wolf Blitzer talks with Seymour Hersh http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/10/hersh.access/index.html 3) THE GULAG Wall Street Journal -- April 10, 2006 TRIBUNAL LAWYERS TRADE SHOTS Guantanamo Commissions Are Plagued by Legal Infighting By Jess Bravin http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB114462942761421404-nfGyJIQebGC4CZl_GdncGCFhIPo_20060509.html The Observer -- April 9, 2006 BLAIR ENVOY REVEALS PLIGHT OF IRAQIS LOST IN JAIL MAZE Ann Clwyd links scandal of missing detainees to abuse in coalition prisons BY Gaby Hinsliff http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1750076,00.html 4) OP-ED Foreign Policy -- March 27, 2006 FOOL ME TWICE By Joseph Cirincione http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3416 TomDispatch -- April 9, 2006 FINAL JEOPARDY: ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTION ABOUT THE PRESIDENT'S INVOLVEMENT IN THE CIA LEAK AFFAIR By Elizabeth de la Vega http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid=76008 San Francisco Chronicle -- April 10, 2006 BEHOLD A PALE HORSE... By Jon Carroll http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/04/10/DDGNSGUECK1.DTL * * * PROJECT TO ENFORCE THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS (PEGC) http://www.justicescholars.org/pegc/ Charles B. Gittings Jr. Fort Bragg, California +1-707-964-2151 cbgittingsyahoo.com