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Global Security (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
... us today to walk us through this -- no stranger to this room -- is Air Force Brigadier General Thomas Hartmann, who is the legal adviser to the convening authority. He is going to lay out the charges in an opening statement and then be happy to address some of your more specific questions. Following this briefing, we will post the charge sheets to the Military Commissions website...
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Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
... the Senate Judiciary Committee last December. As you watch and listen to him, know that Brig-Gen Thomas Hartmann, the legal adviser to the Convening Authority of the trials at Guantanamo, was from taking part in the first case headed for trial. Read the NYT article; then watch, and you'll see why.General Hartmann remind you of anyone you know? Anyone who might be making amoral...
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The Nation Blogs (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Ross Tuttle New evidence sheds light on the corrupting influence of Brig. General Thomas Hartmann on the military commissions process.
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Psyche, Science, and Society (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
... motion that the Military Commissions were politically manipulated by the commanding Brig. General Thomas Hartman. Ross Tuttle in the Nation reports on these new explosive charges: More Meddling at Gitmo By Ross Tuttle According to a document filed in court by Jawad’s attorney on July 15, Brig. General Thomas Hartmann, the highest-ranking officer and top lawyer overseeing Guantánamo’s...
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
... may have misled the court in his testimony last month.
The lawyer said Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann was deliberately evasive when testifying on a hearing called to determine whether he had used what the military calls improper "command influence" to push for criminal charges to be filed against Jawad. A ruling is pending on the issue.
A spokesman for the general...
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
... may have misled the court in his testimony last month.The lawyer said Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann was deliberately evasive when testifying on a hearing called to determine whether he had used what the military calls improper "command influence" to push for criminal charges to be filed against Jawad. A ruling is pending on the issue.A spokesman for the general said Hartmann...
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
... may have misled the court in his testimony last month.The lawyer said Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann was deliberately evasive when testifying on a hearing called to determine whether he had used what the military calls improper "command influence" to push for criminal charges to be filed against Jawad. A ruling is pending on the issue.A spokesman for the general said Hartmann...
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New York Post (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon said yesterday it is charging a Saudi with "organizing and directing" the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole - and will seek the death penalty. Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, legal adviser to the US military tribunal system, said...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
Washington - The Pentagon has charged a Saudi Arabian man held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba for helping to organize the bombing of the USS Cole in a Yemeni port in October 2000. Brigadier General Thomas Hartmann, the top legal advisor to the Pentagon mili...
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Global Security (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
... attack on the vessel as it awaited refueling in the Port of Aden in Yemen, Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, legal advisor to the convening authority in the Office of Military Commissions, told Pentagon reporters today.The chief prosecutor has recommended that the case be tried as a death-penalty case.Susan J. Crawford, the convening authority, will review the case and determine...
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The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
... 2002."Five of the eight charges carry the maximum penalty of death," said Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, legal adviser to the body that oversees the military commissions system set up to try terrorism suspects.Prosecutors allege al-Nashiri was a senior al Qaeda figure. He is one of 14 "high value" detainees held at the prison at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay who is...
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Alertnet (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
... attack on another U.S. warship and an attack on a French supertanker in 2002, Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann told reporters."Mr al-Nashiri is charged with organizing and directing those attacks," said Hartmann, the legal adviser to the body charged with overseeing the military commissions system set up to try prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.Prosecutors filed eight...
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
... taken time to gather that evidence, organize it, collate it, and prepare it," Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, who supervises the war court, said in announcing the charges. Nashiri is accused of testing explosives and equipping what looked like a small civilian garbage barge with bombs for two jihadists who appeared friendly as they came alongside the Cole. They then detonated...
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Time (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
... announcing charges against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, tribunal legal adviser Air Force Brig Gen. Thomas Hartmann said the system ensures fair trials "consistent with American standards of justice." Alston also called on the U.S. military to open its files on five detainees who died at Guantanamo. Four were suicide victims, including three who apparently hanged themselves in June 2006....
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Global Security (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
... to get the torture to stop.But the legal advisor to the military commissions, Brigadier General Thomas Hartmann, says the case may go forward in spite of questions about evidence obtained through waterboarding."You have to look at the evidence," said General Hartmann. "We will look at the evidence, all the evidence that is associated with the case. While there has been an admission...
