Attorney General Eric Holder, speaking to Bob Schieffer from the Aspen Ideas Festival, told you nothing new on the ideational trial of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and the closure of Guantanamo Bay. “No decision has been made yet on exactly where the trial will occur.” … “Bound and determined” to hold some kind of trial, as [...]

This is the sort of thing that makes me want to break down: I was driving past Qadisiya Park and I saw six shiny white banners strung tree to tree. The banners read, in neat blue and green print, “We urge Baghdad City Hall not to turn Qadisiya Park into a commercial plaza.” It was [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 594-10 July 09, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualties The Department of Defense announced today the deaths of three soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. They died July 6 at Qalat, Afghanistan, of wounds sustained when insurgents attacked their vehicle with an improvised explosive device. They were assigned to the 1st Battalion, [...]

She won’t be going back to Guantanamo on Sunday for the end of Omar Khadr’s pre-trial hearing, Danger Room Has Learned. And that just really sucks. Michelle knows more about Khadr than any other journalist. I really only barely know her, but I feel confident in saying she’s also an extraordinary person and everything you [...]

I was all set to write 1500 words of froth about the GOP hysteria over New START, but I see via Michael Cohen that Barron YoungSmith distilled it to a thick syrup. Sip: The responsible Republican foreign policy establishment is not coming back. Mandarins like George Schultz, Henry Kissinger, and James Baker, who have all [...]

Frank Ricciardone, a professional diplomat tapped to be the next ambassador, finds his ankles nibbled at by Elliott Abrams. Abrams’s problem is that Ricciardone isn’t a neocon. Yawn. My pal Josh Rogin reports this particularly offensive shock-horror anecdote about Ricciardone’s behavior as ambassador to Egypt: In one of them, after Rice’s Cairo speech, she had [...]

I know I said I wasn’t going to repost my Danger Room stuff mid-day, but this is the most comprehensive account out there of the un-banning of my colleagues Carol Rosenberg and Steve Edwards from Guantanamo Bay. Yes, Steve too. Michelle Shephard told me she’s still waiting to hear. And I wasn’t able to get [...]

From Free Williamsburg.

No one should ignore the very real restrictions that troops in Afghanistan feel that Gen. McChrystal’s tactical directive put them under, explored very well today by Rajiv Chandrasekaran. But we pretty much know what’s going to happen: Gen. Petraeus is going to reiterate the tactical directive; he’s going to instruct commands not to go “overboard” [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 590-10 July 08, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Pfc. Jacob A. Dennis, 22, of Powder Springs, Ga., died July 3 at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Landstuhl, Germany, of injuries sustained June 30 in a weapons [...]