Known for his drawings from the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan, Steve Mumford was commissioned by Harper's Magazine to go to Guantanamo. He made two trips in February and May 2013. [October] issue of Harper's includes a portfolio of his drawings along with Lawrence Douglas' cover story A Kangaroo in Obama's Court...
| Event Type: | Meeting |
| Location: | Room 110 |
Tuesday, October 22, 2013 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM | |
Calendar: | Berkeley Law Events |
Contact: | Ashton Lee |
As general counsel at the Defense Department during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, [Jeh] Johnson was an aggressive advocate on a number of complex and contentious legal issues. He oversaw the escalation of the use of unmanned drone strikes, the revamping of military commissions to try terrorism suspects rather than using civilian courts and the repeal of the military's ban on openly gay service members. He also mapped out the legal defense for the American cross-border raid into Pakistan that killed Osama bin Laden...
Obama's Periodic Review Board will evaluate the threat to U.S. security posed by individual detainees, not the legality of their imprisonment.
The military NSA is busy spying on all Americans, the lights are on at the Treasury, FBI, CIA, FAA, NRLB, IRS, EPA, NASA, and the Pentagon --just like Motel 6 ("We'll leave the light on for you"). -- Dredd
Why is one of the central perpetrators of systematic torture teaching at Berkeley Law?| 105 Boalt Hall | |
Monday, October 07 12:45 PM - 2:00 PM | |
The Federalist Society presents professors Jesse Choper and John Yoo in a review of the Supreme Court's last term, and a preview of the upcoming one. Much of their presentation will focus on cases stemming from the Voting Rights Act, Affirmative Action, DOMA, and Proposition 8. Q&A will follow their presentation.
Lunch will be provided as supplies last. Please bring a student ID to gain entrance.
The U.S. government has dropped its opposition to releasing a Guantanamo Bay prisoner with severe mental and physical illnesses, apparently conceding the argument that he is far too sick to keep locked up at the U.S. base in Cuba...
[Ibrahim Idris] has been held for more than 11 years as an enemy combatant despite being diagnosed as mentally ill soon after his arrival at Guantanamo.
The court filing was couched in careful language that avoided saying why the government would no longer resist legal efforts to release Idris.
Might we be looking at an isolated act of compassion by the Obama administration? Of the kind denied Lynne Stewart and Herman Wallace? Or is this political calculation to avoid another prisoner death at all cost (4 Guantanamo detainees have expired under Obama's watch)?
Idris' physical condition probably guarantees that he is incapable of "spilling the beans" about his treatment at the U.S. concentration camp. Whether he will receive appropriate care upon anticipated return to his native Sudan is anyone's guess.
