President Obama's New Presidential Records Order
Here it is, President Obama’s new Presidential Records Order!
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About bmaz
Bmaz is a rather large saguaro cactus in the Southwestern Sonoran desert. A lover of the Constitution, law, family, sports, food and spirits. As you might imagine, a bit prickly occasionally. Bmaz has attended all three state universities in Arizona, with both undergraduate and graduate degrees from Arizona State University, and with significant post-graduate work (in physics and organic chemistry, go figure) at both the University of Colorado in Boulder and the University of Arizona. Married, with both a lovely child and a giant Sasquatch dog. Bmaz has been a participant on the internet since the early 2000’s, including active participation in the precursor to Emptywheel, The Next Hurrah. Formally joined the Emptywheel blog as an original contributing member at its founding in 2007. Bmaz grew up around politics, education, sports and, most significantly, cars; notably around Formula One racing and Concours de Elegance automobile restoration and showing. Currently lives in the Cactus Patch with his lovely wife and beast of a dog, and practices both criminal and civil trial law.
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Entries by bmaz
Obama Drafts Order To Close Gitmo; Suspends Habeas Cases In DC Circuit
/in emptywheel, Gitmo Show Trials, Law, Obama Administration/by bmazPresident Obama has drafted an order to close Gitmo and has moved to suspend tribunal proceedings at Gitmo, and the military panels have started entering the orders. As further evidence of the determination to immediately address, and bring a new sense of enlightened justice to, the detainees in Guantanamo, the Administration has imposed analogous continuance motions in pending Habeas cases in United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
President Obama Officially Halts GITMO Show Trials
/in emptywheel, Gitmo Show Trials, Law, Obama Administration, Terrorism, Torture/by bmazHours after taking office on Tuesday, U.S. President Barack Obama ordered military prosecutors in the Guantanamo war crimes tribunals to ask for a 120-day halt in all pending cases….The request would halt proceedings in 21 pending cases, including the death penalty case against five Guantanamo prisoners accused of plotting the September 11 hijacked plane attacks in 2001.
Colin Powell Tees Off A Parting Shot At Bush & Cheney
/in Bush Administration, emptywheel, Obama Administration/by bmazInauguration Day was not kind to the Bush/Cheney cabal (nor should it have been for that matter). In many ways and forms, the outgoing cabal literally got pounded, but few cuts were as unkind as those delivered by Colin Powell.
Today IS The Day!
/in 2008 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Misc, Obama Administration/by bmazToday is the day. Now is the time. Change is in the air. Marcy is on the ground, we will update as she checks in. Consider this an open thread for anything you have to say. Spill your thoughts, emotions and hopes. Post any breaking news you see that I, and all of of us, might need to know. Change is here!
Coach Bush is 3-23 In Real Courts On Gitmo Show Trials; Katyal, The Hero Of Hamdan, To Join Obama Administration
/in emptywheel, Gitmo Show Trials, Law, Obama Administration, Torture/by bmazThere is an interesting article published in today’s New York Times, and the upshot is that 3 wins and 23 losses is exactly what the Bush/Cheney regime’s record is when their Guantanamo Detainee cases see the light of a court in habeas cases. And in most excellent news, Neal Katyal will be Obama’s Deputy Solicitor General.
Obama, The Crawford Torture Admission & The Army Field Manual Lie
/in emptywheel, Intelligence, Obama Administration, Torture/by bmazIn an earlier post I discussed the startling direct admission that the United States tortures terror detainees made public in yesterday’s blockbuster Bob Woodward piece in the Washington Post. As the Bush Administration’s hand picked convening authority for the military tribunals otherwise known as the “Gitmo Show Trials”, Susan Crawford’s admission carries the binding mark of credibility. It also puts the lie to the notion adopted by Obama and many others that reliance on the Army Field Manual is a panacea for reforming the torture regime the United States has enshrined.
Turley Speaks Out On The Bush "Policy Of Crime"
/in Bush Administration, emptywheel, Law/by bmazBarack Obama and his new administration need to prosecute the malefactors in the outgoing Bush Administration for the crimes and crimes against humanity they perpetrated while in office; to set an example so it doesn’t happen again. Tonight on on MSNBC’s Countdown, Professor Jonathan Turley mad a passionate plea for accountability. Must see teevee.
The US Torture Regime – Where Is The Swift Justice?
/in Bush Administration, emptywheel, Gitmo Show Trials, Law, Torture/by bmazEarlier, Marcy and Spencer wrote about the somewhat startling admission today by Susan Crawford that the United States tortured Mohammed al-Qahtani. Sounds like an admission against interest; I wonder when the war crimes trials will be starting?
The Reid/Durbin Fabrication On Burris
/in Bingo, Democrats, emptywheel, Law/by bmazIllinois law and the Constitution have always been contra to Reid and Durbin’s intransigence on Burris, but the disingenuous duo have always fallen back on their precious ancient Senate Rule II. But not only is their fallback claim that Senate Rule II is mandatory completely false, there is clear precedent of deviation from the Rule six years ago in the nepotistic Murkowski appointment in Alaska.