Word: legalism
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There are other changes that Hartmann would apparently like to see at Gitmo if the camp's legal system survives - changes detailed in a variety of internal memos circulating at the Department of Defense that TIME has obtained. The proposals - under discussion but not formally adopted - could be included in the Pentagon's official "Manual for Military Commissions," a handbook of rules for the controversial proceedings. (The former officer overseeing that project reports to Hartmann, who helped select...
...second proposal argues that prisoners at Guantánamo should be compelled to attend their own trials because "the government has a legitimate interest in the accused's presence ... [in part to promote] the appearance and actuality of legitimacy in the proceedings." A variety of legal analysts told TIME that such a policy could mean the forcible extraction from cells of Guantánamo prisoners who might refuse to attend trial, as some have indicated they will...
...political arguments and headline-grabbing tactics in preparing the case for trial. Guantánamo's former chief prosecutor, Air Force Colonel Morris Davis, has also described under oath how Hartmann wanted to try "sexy" cases with "blood on them" to attract public attention and vindicate the camp's legal process. Hartmann denied that charge in an interview with TIME several months...
...result of that and other testimony, military judges found that Hartmann had breached legally mandated impartiality and shown bias against defendants. They barred him from any participation in three important trials at Guantánamo. At that point, Hartmann moved from his job as the Pentagon's top independent legal adviser on the trials to become the principal administrator and point of contact with the incoming Obama Administration...
...raid in Muzaffarabad, the capital of the Pakistani half of the disputed territory of Kashmir, targeted the main local office of the Jama'at-ud-Da'awa (JuD), a charitable organization that terrorism experts say became the legal front of the banned LeT. Soldiers entered the office after a 3 p.m. deadline for its occupants to surrender had passed. Some 30 people fled. Local residents report that they heard fighting and machine-gun fire but no heavy weapons. The army has refused to comment. Latif Akbar, a leader of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party in Muzaffarabad, told TIME that...