From Roger Fitch and our Friends Down Under at Justinian....

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Department of Justice, Washington: with protesters

Hopefully, some readers will have heard about a "no good, very bad day" for Guantánamo's military commissions, when the DC circuit threw out 460 written orders of a MC judge who presided over a case staffed and funded by the Justice Department, while he concealed, with prosecution assistance, his concurrent negotiations with DoJ for an immigration judge position.

Lawfare and Noah Feldman have more on the latest failure of the Pentagon's simulated justice. 

Other points of interest:

• most media failed to report a shocking Pentagon proposal to send unaccompanied migrant children to Guantánamo internment camps;  
• the Gitmo prison commander has been fired, perhaps for talking up humane treatment;
• the 9/11 Commission prosecutor revealed a few details on CIA black sites, but the defendants want more: the 6000-page Senate torture report; 
• rectal rape and other CIA torture continue to haunt the commissions;
• the ACLU is suing the CIA in an effort to find the body of Gul Rahman, who died under torture;
• 15 years after Abu Ghraib, the 4th circuit has rejected the unqualified "political question" defence proffered by a US contractor accused of torture in Iraq, in the ATS case of Al-Shimari v CACI;
• the Pentagon is attempting in spite of torture to bring "war crimes" charges against the Bali bomber, Hambali, though the crimes have no connection to war and (compared to Australia) little to the US;
• commissions are debating when the war began, years after de facto "law of war" detention began.

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