Military

President Obama's advisers are poised to announce a recommendation to reverse course on Attorney General Eric Holder's plan to try the admitted architect of the 9/11 attacks in federal court and instead prosecute Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a military commission, The Washington Post reported on Friday.

The attorney for the Army psychiatrist implicated in a shooting at a Texas military base has responded to a military gag order by starting a blog on the case, CNN reported.

Dozens of high-profile musicians on Thursday demanded the release of song titles that were played repetitively as a coercive interrogation technique at Guantanamo Bay and signed onto a public records request filed by the National Security Archive, the Washington Post reported.

The agreement journalists must sign to become embedded with a military unit in Afghanistan now includes a prohibition against any photographic or video coverage of U.S. troops killed in action, according to a copy of the latest agreement.

The Solicitor General has asked the Supreme Court to postpone its decision to hear arguments in the case over whether abuse photos of detainees in U.S. custody should be released to the public because if a pending Homeland Security Appropriations Bill is signed into law, the government may have the authority to exempt the photos from release and the appeal would be unnecessary, she contends.

A reporter for The San Diego Union-Tribune will have to testify as a defense witness in a court-martial, a military judge ruled Monday.

After a years-long battle to withhold images of abuse and torture at U.S.-run military facilities -- a battle lost in court -- the White House is being urged to reverse its position to release them to the public by two U.S. senators who still don't seem to get it.

CBS does not have to hand over the unaired footage of a 60 Minutes interview with a Marine who is being investigated on several charges related to the 2005 deaths in Haditha, Iraq, a military judge at Camp Pendelton ruled Thursday.

The saga continues over whether CBS has to turn over to the government footage of an interview with Marine Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich discussing his role in the killing of a group of Iraqi citizens in Haditha, Iraq.

In a decision issued Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces sent the case back to the military judge who had initially quashed the government’s subpoena, holding that the judge should have reviewed the tapes privately before making a decision.

An Army historian today told a government declassification group that the Army is not enforcing its record-keeping policies and that it is not receiving adequate records from military units in Afghanistan and Iraq.

"Records are just not kept," Dr. Richard Davis of the U.S. Army Center of Military History told the Public Interest Declassification Board at its third open meeting of the year. "As of October 2005, not one Army unit returned one record."