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Christian voter drive organizer says tie to Perry’s ‘Response’ came as surprise

By | 09.09.11 | 3:16 pm

Image by Matt MahurinPrayer-goers who attended Gov. Rick Perry’s “Response” in August may have been surprised to find themselves on a mailing list encouraging them to take part in an ambitious Christian voter mobilization effort two weeks after the rally.

GTMO Postscript: Prosecutor Goes After Defense, Press

By | 05.07.10 | 10:49 am

GUANTANAMO BAY — As an addendum to my piece this morning, it’s worth noting an unexpected and unusual attack on the integrity of Omar Khadr’s attorneys and the press corps here that Navy Capt. John Murphy, the chief prosecutor of the military commissions, issued yesterday afternoon.

After Col. Patrick More…

GTMO Press Put On Notice About Classified Witness Identities

By | 05.05.10 | 2:08 pm

GUANTANAMO BAY — Following a lunchtime recess, Navy Capt. John Murphy asked Col. Patrick Parrish, the military judge overseeing Omar Khadr’s military commission, to admonish the press corps here for publishing the names of witnesses in the pre-trial hearing who have or will testify anonymously. Khadr’s lawyers didn’t object, and More…

FBI Interrogator: Khadr Never Told Me About Torture

By | 04.30.10 | 1:23 pm

GUANTANAMO BAY — Sometime during this hearing, Omar Khadr’s lawyers intend to call as a witness someone identified only as “Interrogator #1.” Interrogator #1, his lawyers told Col. Patrick Parrish, the military judge here, will testify to personally threatening Khadr with rape during Khadr’s detention at Bagram Air Field in More…

Khadr ‘Bombmaking’ Video Doesn’t Clearly Show Khadr Planting Bombs

By | 04.29.10 | 4:34 pm

GUANTANAMO BAY — The prosecution in Omar Khadr’s pre-trial hearing screened what may be its trump card when the actual trial portion of the military commission gets underway in July: a 25-minute video captured by U.S. forces in Afghanistan showing a 15-year old Omar Khadr in a compound with people More…

9/11 Masterminds Could Face Trial in Federal Court

By | 10.21.09 | 6:00 am

As the Obama administration nears its deadline for deciding where to try the men suspected of masterminding the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorists attacks, there are strong indications that those trials could take place in federal courts in the United States. That’s prompting fervent opposition from Republicans, who say the 9/11 More…