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Haditha Update: Lt Grayson Not Guilty
2008-06-06 05:19:00 Lt Andrew Grayson was acquitted on 4JUN08. According to reports: Cheers erupted as the seven-officer panel cleared 1st Lt. Andrew Grayson, who was the first of three Marines to be tried in the biggest U.S. criminal case involving Iraqi deaths linked to the war. The verdict came just five hours after deliberations began. Two Marines still face courts-martial ...
By: Dreadnaught
Blackwater v. Judge Ryan: Malpractice Suit Dismissed
2008-06-05 03:02:00 That litigious private army Blackwater had their malpractice suit against Wiley Rein and C.A.A.F. Judge Margaret A. Ryan dismissed by the D.C. Superior Court. Blackwater filed the lawsuit in January 2008, claiming Wiley lawyers, including Judge Ryan, neglected critical case law while defending a wrongful-death case brought on behalf of four Blackwater employees ...
By: Dreadnaught
Haditha Update: Trial Set For Lt Andrew Grayson
2008-05-24 05:16:00 The court martial of Lt Andrew Grayson is set to begin on 28MAY08. Lt Grayson charges for dereliction of duty, false official statement, and obstructing justice. All of the charges relate to his failure to investigate the events surrounding the killing of 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq. yojoe out For more on Haditha: Haditha Haditha Update: History ...
By: Dreadnaught
Haditha Update: Chessani Judge Finds Unlawful Command Influence
2008-05-23 04:31:00 In a hearing aboard Camp Pendleton, a military judge, Col Folsom found that “top Marine Corps officers were unlawfully influenced by a general’s legal adviser when they decided to file criminal charges against a colonel whose troops killed two dozen civilians in the Iraqi city of Haditha in 2005″ This ruling came in the court-martial of ...
By: Dreadnaught
Japan to allow military use of space
2008-05-22 06:03:00 Japan’s estrangement from its postwar pacifism continued today with the enactment of a law ending its 40-year ban on the military use of space. The law signals Tokyo’s determination to expand its military capability amid concern over China’s ballooning defence budget and North Korea’s development of ballistic and nuclear missiles. The move will be welcomed by the ...
By: 1913 Intel
The Ninth Circuit Rules On ?Don?t Ask, Don?t Tell?
2008-05-22 03:06:00 The Ninth Circuit released an opinion challenging the U.S. Military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy. The case involves an Air Force nurse suspended from her duties for having a relationship with a civilian woman. The court adopts a new standard of scrutiny, Under this review, we must determine not whether DADT has some hypothetical, posthoc rationalization ...
By: Dreadnaught
Haditha Update: Court Martial Of LCpl Stephen Tatum Begins
2008-03-28 19:46:00 The court-martial of Lance Corporal Stephen B. Tatum, USMC, begins today, 28MAR08. LCpl Tatum faces the following charges: Charge I: Violation of the UCMJ, Article 119 (Involuntary Manslaughter) (Maximum punishment: dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and confinement for 10 years): Specification 1: by culpable negligence or while perpetrating an offense ...
By: Dreadnaught
Jarrod M. Glass, USMC, Former Marine Corps Drill Instructor Released From J
2008-03-06 02:15:00 Jerrod M. Glass was a drill instructor at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego (MCRDSD). He, along with a number of other drill instructors, was charged with abusing recruits. In November 2007, then-Sergent Glass was convicted and sentenced to 6 months confinement, reduction to E-1 (Private), and a bad-conduct discharge. Pvt Glass ...
By: Dreadnaught
German Military: Two Airmen Made Sausage From Human Blood
2008-03-05 00:17:00 Two members of the German Luftwaffe are to be tried by court-martial for making sausage, or wurst. The issue was not the quality of the sausage, but one of the ingredients, i.e., human blood. The servicemen were discovered after they solicited a fellow serviceman to donate blood, and the fellow serviceman asked as ...
By: Dreadnaught
Military Commissions Update: Khalid Sheik Mohammed Charged For 9/11 Attack
2008-02-12 00:23:00 The Office of the Military Commissions, has referred charges against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The charge sheet lists nine charges and included eighty-eight pages. The crimes are all defined in 10 U.S.C. Section 950v. The bulk of the charge sheet is devoted to listing all of the specifics regarding the attacks, including Khalid ...
By: Dreadnaught
Military Commissions Update: Charges Referred Against Three Enemy Combatant
2008-02-10 03:41:00 In the past week, the Department of defense has announced charges against three detainees held at GTMO. Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi, aka, “Abu Khobib al Sudani.” Al Qosi is charged with conspiring with Usama bin Laden and other al Qaeda members to target, attack and murder civilians and attack civilian objects in violation of ...
By: Dreadnaught
Haditha Update: Lt Andrew Grayson Arraigned
2008-01-24 03:31:00 First Lieutenant Andrew Grayson was arraigned on 23JAN08. Note: it is not uncommon for accused to reserve pleas, it is the norm. For more information on Haditha. yojoe out
By: Dreadnaught
So is Pakistan under emergency military law or not?
2007-11-04 08:07:00 It is confusing because several hundred articles have stated that Pakistan is under emergency rule... ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf imposed emergency rule in an attempt to reassert his flagging authority against challenges from Islamist militants, a hostile judiciary and political rivals. but they are denying it.... ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP)
By: Hot Fresh Now
US Military Lawyer Prepares Blast At Guantanamo Prison Procedures
2007-10-27 14:38:00 An American military lawyer who has been involved in numerous Guantanamo tribunals is prepared to openly express his disgust with the unconstitutional procedures occurring at the prison. The whistle blower, a major who is thoroughly familiar with the entire Guantanamo operation, described the detention of a hospital administrator from Sudan as “unconscionable.” The major says ...
Top military lawyers wary of CIA interrogation abuses under new Bush order
2007-08-26 23:44:00 Jurist article link Top military lawyers wary of CIA interrogation abuses under new Bush orderBernard Hibbitts at 8:50 PM ET[JURIST] US Judge Advocates General told a group of Republican senators last month that CIA prisoner interrogation methods authorized under a July executive order [text; JURIST report] issued by President Bush could contravene the Geneva Conventions, according to the Boston Globe. The military lawyers were talking to John Warner, Lindsay Graham, and a top aide to John McCain, all of whom have pressed for changes to various aspects of US interrogation policy. The JAGs expressed particular concern about wording in the order that could allow detainees to be subjected to humiliating or degrading interrogation techniques banned under the Conventions as long as those were directed to protecting national security interests rather than the sadistic purposes of the interrogator. A subsequent memo from US Army JAG Major General Scott C. Black obtained by the Globe was is... |
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