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Salim Hamdan had spent two years as a prisoner at Guantánamo Bay when he first met Lieut. Commander Charles Swift, his Pentagon-appointed Navy defense lawyer. At the meeting, Swift suggested the possibility of suing President Bush on Hamdan's behalf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Salim Hamdan: Enemy Number One | 7/24/2008 | See Source »

...tell" was itself a misnomer, a media-friendly term that did not accurately describe the 1993 law passed by a Democratic Congress and signed by President Clinton. The law did not actually prevent the Pentagon from "asking" any service member or potential service member whether he or she is gay. The Pentagon did agree to stop asking about sexuality in recruitment forms and interviews, but it never agreed to stop investigating whether those serving in the military are gay. That's why discharges of gays did not substantially decrease after the law was enacted. Compare the period between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revisiting 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' | 7/23/2008 | See Source »

...discovered, a President Obama could, on Day 1, instruct his new Secretary to simply stop investigating gays. The current law also says that the Secretary has the power to determine that keeping a gay service member is "in the best interest of the armed forces." Obama could instruct the Pentagon that, as a general matter, it is never "in the best interest of the armed forces" to expel a service member solely for saying he is gay or bisexual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revisiting 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' | 7/23/2008 | See Source »

...Legal experts inside and outside the Pentagon were scrambling Tuesday to figure out the impact of Captain Allred's Monday-night decision to bar statements Hamdan made after his capture in Afghanistan in late 2001. Hamdan had been bound hand and foot 24 hours a day, sometimes with a bag over his head, in what amounted to solitary confinement at Kabul's Bagram air base, Allred said in a 16-page ruling. "The interests of justice are not served by admitting these statements," Allred ruled, "because of the highly coercive environments and conditions under which they were made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judge Limits Hamdan Prosecution | 7/22/2008 | See Source »

...days leading up to 9/11, Hamdan joined a small motorcade of al-Qaeda leaders, including bin Laden and his top lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahiri, who drove into the mountains above Khost to watch the hijacked planes crash into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on satellite TV. Hamdan was also at bin Laden's side - as a driver - in the weeks that followed, while the motorcade moved from one guesthouse to the next as bin Laden and al-Zawahiri readied their remaining fighters for America's imminent invasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hamdan: Guantánamo's Mystery Man | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

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