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...detainees challenged their designation as enemy combatants. Earlier, as the government prepared to release the transcripts, as required by a Freedom of Information Act filing, military officials reviewed them, looking for "potentially controversial and embarrassing items" about which their superiors should be notified in advance, according to a Pentagon memo that TIME has seen. To make sense of the latest Gitmo controversies, here is a look at Guantánamo during the war on terrorism. -By Daniel Eisenberg and Timothy J. Burger...
Moreover, their compromise is a bipartisan message to Bush, calling on him to consult the Senate before nominating judges. As the compromise memo argues, the Constitution checks Presidents power to nominate judges by requiring the advice and consent of the Senate. The President should work with Senators from both parties before choosing judicial nominees, instead of attempting to fill the judicial ranks with extremely conservative justices like William Myers and Henry Saad. A less unilateral approach would lead to the nomination of moderate judges that would be acceptable to a broad spectrum of representatives...
...North Korea] also has nuclear warheads and carrier missiles, which are targeted on the big cities of South Korea and Japan." INTERNAL MEMO from the Hungarian Foreign Ministry, dated Feb. 16, 1976, part of a trove of declassified Soviet-era documents released last week by the Woodrow Wilson Center's Cold War International History Project...
...lied their way into an unprovoked invasion of Iraq two years ago have finally been caught red-handed, but nobody seems to care. The memo records the Bush administration’s open acknowledgement that, according to British intelligence chief Richard Dearlove, “the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy...
More than a week has gone by since the appearance of this finally conclusive proof that our two governments ginned-up the war—or as Dearlove puts it, that they fixed facts to suit policy. In addition to the above, this memo contains such gems as “there was little discussion in Washington of the aftermath after military action,” and “the most likely timing in US minds for military action to begin was January, with the timeline beginning 30 days before the US Congressional elections...