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...well as national attention. On Sunday, President-elect Barack Obama acknowledged the workers' situation, saying, "I think these workers, if they have earned their benefits and their pay, then these companies need to follow through on those commitments." The Rev. Jesse Jackson appeared at the sit-in. Illinois' attorney general, Lisa Madigan, announced that her office planned to investigate various aspects of Republic's operations. On Monday, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich held a quickly organized press conference at the plant and vowed to ask a federal court to enforce federal guidelines. He also said the state would sever business dealings...
President-elect Barack Obama has chosen retired General Eric Shinseki, who voiced the first, lone dissent of the Bush Administration's cut-rate plan for the Iraq war, to head the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The move shows Obama's deep concern for the needs of wounded veterans. More poignantly, it marks a comeback for an Army officer who was spurned by his superiors, then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, for warning that the war's post-invasion phase would require many more troops than the Pentagon believed...
...there are plenty of other defendants who could be tried under Guantánamo's unique legal process. And carrying the banner for that process is Brigadier General Thomas W. Hartmann, 53, a lawyer and Air Force reservist who as the top legal adviser and chief administrator of the trials has managed to put 17 complex war-crimes cases on the docket in less than 18 months. Now Obama's promise to shutter the facility seems to have spurred Hartmann to even greater activity. Motions and hearings are currently under way in at least half a dozen cases, and this...
...similar account of Hartmann's aggressiveness comes from Navy Captain Patrick McCarthy, a senior lawyer who worked closely with the general and gave a sworn, 45-page statement earlier this year that was obtained by TIME. The deposition describes Hartmann demanding prosecution access to all sorts of sensitive records, notably those of the International Committee of the Red Cross, which has conducted private visits to hundreds of Gitmo prisoners. (Click here to read the deposition.) An ICRC spokesman told TIME the organization would strongly oppose use of its Guantanamo reports in court as a breach of confidentiality and a threat...
...spokesman for Hartmann said the general was not available for interviews and would have no comment. Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England, the Pentagon's second highest official, did issue the following statement to TIME: "Misunderstandings of the military commission process have led to confusion and controversy. In this environment, BGEN Tom Hartmann has been the steady hand to ensure that the process is open, fair and just. I am grateful for his strong, focused and effective leadership during these dangerous and challenging times." England, who reports to Pentagon boss Robert Gates, is expected to leave in the coming weeks...