Just some stuff you might have missed in the fog of the financial crisis.
Guantanamo Watch
Air Force Maj. David Frakt said that Vandeveld wanted to reach a plea agreement that would allow Jawad, who was 16 or 17 at the time of the attack, to be released in the very near future. Frakt said there were serious questions about Jawad's guilt and that the government failed to investigate two other Afghans who he said admitted to Afghan police to having roles in the attack.
Part II
"These discussions took place at the highest levels of the White House," Levin said in an interview. The documents belie administration claims that abuse of detainees was "the work of a few bad apples," he said.
A Real Troop-r-gate
but they asked for a change [in date] due to political circumstances related to the [U.S] domestic situation so it will not be said to the end of 2010 followed by one year for withdrawal but the end of 2011 as a final date.
DARK MATTER
I think it's one of the classic questions of human civilization: Where do we come from, and why are we here?" Hinshaw said. "It seems to me that if 96 percent of the stuff in the universe is foreign to us, it's pretty interesting for us to ask what that is."
