“The government’s new system for trying Guant¡namo detainees was thrown into turmoil Monday,” when military judges dismissed charges against two suspects after “finding that the Pentagon had not followed congressional mandates in bringing the cases.” The judges cited a technicality that effects all Guantanamo detainees, meaning all trials will likely “come to a halt.”
Military chiefs have drawn up plans to withdraw all British troops within a year. “The new timetable, which would see nearly all 5,500 British troops return home by next May,” suggests “withdrawing almost all troops, leaving only a small number of teams in the south to advise Iraqi military forces.”
“Afghan President Hamid Karzai gave Iran his full embrace Monday, saying it has been his country’s ‘very close friend,’ even as U.S. officials meeting with him here repeated their accusation that Iranian-made weapons were flowing to Taliban fighters.”
A military panel recommended yesterday that Iraq war veteran Marine Cpl. Adam Kokesh, “who wore his uniform during an anti-war protest, should lose his honorable discharge status, brushing away his claims that he was exercising his right to free speech.”
Freshman Rep. Steve Kagen (D-WI) issued a statement calling on newly indicted Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) to “consider resigning for the good of Congress and for the good of the nation.”
Michigan’s third attempt in a decade to ban what right wing activists call “partial-birth abortion” was “declared unconstitutional by a federal appeals court on Monday, less than two months after the Supreme Court narrowly upheld a federal law banning the method.”
“Everybody is overworked” at U.S. military hospitals. The Army has 4,170 doctors, yet it needs at least 180 more. For the past two years, more than half of the Army’s 36 medical facilities “have failed to meet Pentagon standards for providing a doctor within seven days for routine medical care.”
“Hunger in America leads to $90 billion a year in societal costs, such as mental-health problems that may arise when people miss too many meals,” according to a new Sodexho Foundation study.
35 percent. President Bush’s approval rating in a new Washington Post/ABC News poll. Congress’ approval rating fell five points to 39 percent, with “[m]uch of that drop” due to frustration among “strong opponents of the war, independents and liberal Democrats.”
And finally: The CIA wants to appear more “approachable.” It has named Paul Barry as its entertainment liaison, “to showcase the cloak-and-dagger agency in a warmer light in movies, TV, fiction and even children’s books.” The CIA also hated the movie “The Good Shepherd” last year, calling it “a lamentable piece of fiction masquerading as a documentary.”
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