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Say Hello To Our New Friends At Just Security
September 23, 2013 /21 Comments/in Blogs Internet and New Media, Cybersecurity, Department of Justice, Drones, FISA, Gitmo Show Trials, Indefinite Detention, Law, PATRIOT, state secrets, Terrorism, Unitary Executive /by bmaz
We do a lot of things here at Emptywheel including occasionally, goofing off. But our primary focus has always been the intersection of security issues, law and politics. I think I can speak for Marcy and Jim, and I certainly do for myself, we would love it if that intersection were not so critical in today's world. But, alas, it is absolutely critical and, for all the voices out there in the community, there are precious few that deep dive into the critical minutiae.
Today we welcome a new and important player in the field, the Just Security Blog. It has a truly all star and broad lineup of contributors (most all of whom are listed as "editors" of one fashion or another), including good friends such as Steve Vladeck, Daphne Eviatar, Hina Shamsi, Julian Sanchez, Sarah Knuckey and many other quality voices. It is an ambitious project, but one that, if the content already posted on their first day is any indication, will be quite well done. The home of Just Security is the New York University School of Law, so they will have ample resources and foundation from which to operate for the long run.
Ironically, it was little more than three years ago (September 1, 2010 actually) that the Lawfare Blog went live to much anticipation (well, at least from me). Whether you always agree with Ben Wittes, Bobby Chesney, Jack Goldsmith and their contributors or not, and I don't always, they have done this field of interest a true service with their work product, and are a fantastic and constantly evolving resource. There is little question but that Just Security intends to occupy much of the same space, albeit it in a complimentary as opposed to confrontational manner. In fact, it was Ben Wittes who hosted the podcast with Steve Vladeck and Ryan Goodman that serves as the multi-media christening of Just Security.
Orin Kerr (who is also a must read at Volokh conspiracy), somewhat tongue in cheek, tweeted that the cage match war was on between Lawfare and Just Security. That was pretty funny actually, but Orin made a more serious point in his welcome post today, and a point that I think will greatly interest the readers of Emptywheel:
Whereas Lawfare tend to have a center or center-right ideological orientation, for the most part, Just Security's editorial board suggests that it will have a progressive/liberal/civil libertarian voice.
From my understanding, and my knowledge of the people involved, I believe that to be very much the case. And that is a very good thing for us here, and the greater discussion on so much of our work.
So, say hello to our new friends at Just Security, bookmark them and give them a read. Follow them on Twitter. You will be better informed for having done so.
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Dianne Feinstein Suggests President Obama Personally Violating Our Treaty Obligations
July 11, 2013 /10 Comments/in Gitmo Show Trials, Indefinite Detention, Torture /by emptywheel
As I noted the other day, in her ruling that she could not halt the force-feeding at Gitmo, Gladys Kessler described the treatment as "degrading," potentially invoking our obligations under Article 16 of the Convention again Torture to prevent degrading treatment. Kessler actually explicitly invoked International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which includes a similar prohibition on degrading treatment.
Dianne Feinstein and Dick Durbin sent Obama a letter yesterday, using Kessler's ruling to connect the two explicitly.
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Gladys Kessler also expressed concern about the force-feeding of Guantanamo Bay detainees. The Court denied detainee Jihad Dhiab's motion for a preliminary injunction to stop force-feeding due to lack of jurisdiction, but in her order, Judge Kessler noted that Dhiab has set out in great detail in his court filings "what appears to be a consensus that force-feeding of prisoners violates Article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) which prohibits torture or cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatment." The United States has ratified the ICCPR and is obligated to comply with its provisions. Judge Kessler also wrote, "it is perfectly clear from the statements of detainees, as well as the statements from the [medical] organizations just cited, that force-feeding is a painful, humiliating, and degrading process." (emphasis added).
The judge concluded by correctly pointing out that you, as Commander in Chief, have the authority to intercede on behalf of Dhiab, and other similarly-situated detainees at Guantanamo. The court wrote: "Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution provides that '[t]he President shall be the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States. …' It would seem to follow, therefore, that the President of the United States, as Commander-in-Chief, has the authority—and power—to directly address the issue of force-feeding of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay."
Feinstein only by association makes the next part of her argument. We comply with these treaties by complying with our Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel or unusual punishment. And the government has long said that if we can do something elsewhere in a our gulag system, we can do it in Gitmo.
In a letter to Chuck Hagel last month — which Feinstein noted in yesterday's letter but did not quote from — she laid out how our force-feeding at Gitmo differs from that used in the Bureau of Prisons.
In addition to the allegation that the Department of Defense's force-feeding practices are out of sync with international norms, they also appear to deviate significantly from U.S. Bureau of Prison practices. Based on a review by Intelligence Committee staff, the significant differences between force-feedings at Guantanamo Bay and within the U.S. Bureau of Prisons relate to the manner in which the detainees are force-fed, how often detainees are force-fed, and the safeguards and oversight in place during force-feedings.
Within the Bureau of Prisons, force-feeding is exceedingly rare. The Intelligence Committee staff has been told that no inmate within the Bureau of Prisons has been force-fed in more than six months. When force-feedings do occur within the Bureau of Prisons, we have been told that nearly 95% of the time they are conducted with a fully compliant inmate requiring no restraints. At Guantanamo Bay, on the other hand, all detainees being force-fed–regardless of their level of cooperation–are placed in chairs where they are forcibly restrained. The visual impression is one of restraint: of arms, legs, and body. Further, at Guantanamo Bay, detainees are fed twice a day in this manner, potentially over a substantial period of time. This also is inconsistent with the practice of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.
Additionally, the U.S. federal prison guidelines for force-feedings include several safeguards and oversight mechanisms that are not in place at Guantanamo Bay. These guidelines require the warden to notify a sentencing judge of the involuntary feeding, with background and an explanation of the reasons for involuntary feeding. Further, the Bureau of Prisons requires an individualized assessment of an inmate's situation to guide how force-feedings are administered, a practice that I found largely absent at Guantanamo Bay. Finally, all force-feedings must be videotaped within the Bureau of Prisons.
It's almost as if DiFi knows or suspects there's an OLC memo that — parallel to the ones that found torture to be legal because it vaguely resembled practices elsewhere (as when they noted that members of the military undergo SERE training, so reverse-engineered SERE techniques used in different situations were legal) — finds our force-feeding at Gitmo to be legal because judges have approved the way we force-feed people in federal prisons. In any case, Gitmo officials have said their treatment is similar with BOP treatment.
Between these two letters, she has laid out why that is not the case. Indeed, that's the import of Kessler's language, a federal judge finding the treatment we use in Gitmo to violate our obligations under ICCPR.
Say what you will about DiFi (lord knows I've often said the same, where I thought it appropriate), but she has just told a President from her own party that he's breaking the law.
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Judge Kessler to President Obama: Will You Save Gitmo Detainees from "Painful, Humiliating, and Degrading" Treatment?
July 8, 2013 /6 Comments/in Gitmo Show Trials, Indefinite Detention, Torture /by emptywheel
In my post describing the emergency suit to stop force-feeding at Gitmo before Ramadan, I suggested it might be unlikely for the DC District Court judges to accept a challenge about prison conditions. That is exactly what happened: Judge Gladys Kessler rejected the request on jurisdictional grounds.
But along the way, she made it clear she doesn't buy government claims that force-feeding people is really the best medical care.
Despite the statements contained in the Declaration submitted by the Government in support of its Opposition to the Application claiming that "[t]he health care provided to the detainees being held at JTF-GTMO rivals that provided in any community in the United States and is comparable to that afforded to our active duty service members. Detainees receive timely, compassionate, quality healthcare and have regular access to primary care and specialist physicians," it is perfectly clear from the statements of detainees, as well as the statements from the organizations just cited, that force-feeding is a painful, humiliating, and degrading process. [my emphasis]
At which point she made clear who really bears responsibility for this continued treatment.
Even though this Court is obligated to dismiss the Application for lack of jurisdiction, and therefore lacks any authority to rule on Petitioner's request, there is an individual who does have the authority to address the issue. In a speech on May 23,2013, President Barack Obama stated "Look at the current situation, where we are force-feeding detainees who are holding a hunger strike. . . Is that who we are? Is that something that our founders foresaw? Is that the America we want to leave to our children? Our sense of justice is stronger than that." Text of President Obama's May 23 Speech on National Security (Full Transcript), Wash. Post, May 23, 2013, available at 2013 WLNR 12700673.
Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution provides that "[t]he President shall be the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States … " It would seem to follow, therefore, that the President of the United States, as Commander-in-Chief, has the authority–and power–to directly address the issue of force-feeding of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay. [my emphasis]
Kessler's use of the term "degrading" is particularly notable. Article 16 of the Convention Against Torture reads, in part,
Each State Party shall undertake to prevent in any territory under its jurisdiction other acts of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment which do not amount to torture
A federal judge has just determined that force-feeding Gitmo detainees amounts to degrading treatment.
Will the President act to end this degrading treatment, or will he publicly fail to meet our obligations under the Convention Against Torture?
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Gitmo Detainees Try to Force End to Force-Feeding in Time for Ramadan
July 1, 2013 /6 Comments/in Gitmo Show Trials, Indefinite Detention /by emptywheel
According to Carol Rosenberg's count, 44 of the 106 Gitmo detainees currently on hunger strike are being tube-fed. Which suggests there are too many men to carry out the tube feeding after sunset and sunset, which is what the camp has done in past years when there were fewer detainees hunger striking during Ramadan.
That is just one of the issues cited in the emergency motion filed by the lawyer for Shaker Aamer and three other detainees, Cori Crider, plus John Eisenberg (of al-Haramain fame) to end the practice.
Petitioners have been detained at Guantánamo Bay for up to 11 years. At this point, their detention without trial or military commission proceedings has become indefinite. To force-feed a noncriminal detainee in order to prolong his indefinite detention violates the law of human rights and thus serves no legitimate penological interest.
Petitioners' force-feeding also violates medical ethics and is inhumane. For that reason, too, it serves no legitimate penological interest. The only theory advanced to justify petitioners' detention is that, more than a decade ago, they were enemy belligerents. Their detention, it is said, is necessary to ward off some putative "return" to the battlefield. They dispute that claim, but even if one accepts it, a noncriminal enemy belligerent is still entitled, under the Geneva Conventions and basic standards of human decency, to be treated honorably and humanely. Being strapped to a chair and having a tube forcibly inserted through one's nostrils and into one's stomach is dishonorable and degrading. It falls within the ambit of torture or other forms of inhumane treatment. In the long history of American detention of the enemy, bodily invasions of this character have never been the routine business of the prisoner of war camp.
The motion has individual descriptions from each of the four detainees explaining why they are striking.
[Nabil] Hadjarab is an Algerian citizen and former French resident. His living relatives are French citizens and have requested that the French government accept him in honor of his family's history of French military service. He was also cleared by the Bush administration ARB in 2007 and by the Obama-era GRTF in 2009.
Mr. Hadjarab was among the first prisoners to be force-fed, on March 22, 2013. Crider Decl. Ex. A, at 11. He also finds the process degrading and painful, stating that the feeding chair " 'reminds [him] of an execution chair.' " Id. at 11. He, too, has sought to raise concerns with medical staff and has been rebuffed.
The big question will be whether the courts accept a challenge on prison conditions.
The judges in these detainees' habeas cases, Rosemary Collyer and Gladys Kessler, have given the government until Wednesday to respond.
Ramadan starts Monday.
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BREAKING: CIA Admits to SSCI Millions of Its Official Records Are Badly Inaccurate
June 27, 2013 /11 Comments/in Gitmo Show Trials, Torture /by emptywheel
As I noted in this post, today John Brennan will try to convince Dianne Feinstein and Saxby Chambliss that their (well, really McCain and the Democrats') 6,000 page report documenting that torture didn't work and CIA lied to Congress (and the White House and DOJ and the public) about it not working.
Here's the basis on which Brennan will stake his claim that SSCI's report is wrong.
The CIA report catalogues errors that teams of agency analysts found in the committee's research. It also questions the panel's methodology, noting that the committee collected millions of internal CIA cables and other documents on the interrogation program, but it did not interview anyone directly involved.
Never mind that the CIA chose not to make its officials available to the committee. Never mind that John Kiriakou made it clear that the cables describing Abu Zubaydah's torture, at least, both downplayed the number of times he had been waterboarded and exaggerated how effectively it worked.
The CIA will make the case that if you were to read millions of their cables recording their intelligence programs, you would have a grossly distorted understanding of those programs. CIA will make the case that nothing true they do is written down.
Now, there's abundant evidence the conclusions of the SSCI report are actually correct, no matter what torturers would say if asked.
But I do think it ought to raise at least as many concerns to be told that the millions of CIA cables and other documentation SSCI read doesn't convey the truth about what CIA is doing.
Hell, I think John Brennan just made the case that the lawyers for Gitmo detainees who were held by the CIA need to interview all of the CIA personnel in person.
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Obama's Headlong Rush to Counterterrorism Transparency
May 20, 2013 /14 Comments/in Drones, Gitmo Show Trials, Indefinite Detention, Leak Investigations, Terrorism /by emptywheel
By my count, Thursday will be the 100th day since Obama promised, in his State of the Union Adress delivered February 12, "to engage Congress to ensure not only that our targeting, detention and prosecution of terrorists remains consistent with our laws and system of checks and balances, but that our efforts are even more transparent to the American people and to the world."
Back then there were, officially at least, just a handful of Gitmo detainees on hunger strike. And it's possible — if DOJ used the two 45-day gags on subpoenas they permit themselves — a subpoena seizing the phone records for 21 AP phone lines had already been issued.
After Obama promised more transparency on drones and other counterterrorism programs, Members of Congress continued to have to demand minimal transparency. On February 20, Rand Paul sent his third request for that information. On February 27, House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte repeated that Committee's request to see OLC's drone targeting memos; he also expressed anger that the Administration had refused to send a witness to the hearing.
On March 7, Eric Holder hinted that we would "will hear from the President in a relatively short period of time" on drones and transparency and counterterrorism. On March 8, guards at Gitmo shot non-lethal bullets at detainees. The following day US conducted a drone strike in Pakistan, one of two strikes that month.
On March 11, Progressive Members of Congress sent a letter asking for information on drone targeting.
On April 9, McClatchy reported that most drone strikes had hit low level militants, contrary to public claims; it also revealed the intelligence reports themselves were false.
On April 10, the House Judiciary Committee finally threatened to subpoena the OLC memos authorizing the killing of an American citizen; that was at least the 23rd request for such information from Congress. A week later the Committee would finally get a promise to see just those memos, memos squarely within the Committee's oversight jurisdiction.
On April 13, the military locked down Gitmo, effectively depriving most detainees of the human company they had enjoyed for years. On that day, 43 men were hunger striking.
On April 14, Samir Haji al Hasan Moqbel described, in a NYT op-ed, "I've been on a hunger strike since Feb. 10 and have lost well over 30 pounds. I will not eat until they restore my dignity." That same day, the US launched one of two drone strikes in Pakistan that month.
On April 15, the Tsarnaev brothers attacked the Boston Marathon, reportedly in retaliation for treatment of Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq.
April 17, a US drone struck the Yemeni village of a Yemeni, Farea al-Muslimi, already scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about how drones turn Yemenis against the US.
On April 21, the number of hunger strikes at Gitmo reached 84 — over half the men there. Six days later, on April 27, that number reached 100. Three more men have since joined the hunger strike.
As those numbers were growing, on April 25, Dianne Feinstein called on Obama to transfer those detainees who have been cleared. On April 30, Obama renewed his promise to close Gitmo. The next day, the White House made clear that the moratorium preventing almost half the detainees, men who have been cleared for transfer, to return home to Yemen, remained in place.
On May 10, the AP learned that DOJ had seized phone records from 21 phone lines with no notice, potentially exposing the sources of up to 100 journalists.
On May 16, in a hearing querying whether Congress should eliminate or expand the September 18, 2001 Authorization to Use Military Force, Assistant Defense Secretary Michael Sheehan testified the war on terror would last at least 10-20 more years. He also said DOD won't be taking over CIA's side of the drone war anytime soon.
Saturday, a drone strike killed at least 4 thus far unidentified men in Yemen.
Which brings us to Thursday when, the WaPo details, Obama will give a speech telling us once again the drone strikes are legal, his desire to close Gitmo is real, and leaks his new CIA Director exacerbated are serious. He will, apparently, also tell us how he plans to make his counterterrorism plan look more like what he promised it would look like 4 years ago.
President Obama will deliver a speech Thursday at the National Defense University in which he will address how he intends to bring his counterterrorism policies, including the drone program and the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in line with the legal framework he promised after taking office.
In the interim between when he promised this transparency and when he'll start to sort of deliver it (but not, apparently, any actions to close Gitmo), about 7% of his second term will have passed.
Some of the delay, apparently, comes from the need to address the issues that have been festering during the delay.
Obama was prepared to deliver the speech earlier this month, but it was put off amid mounting concerns over a prisoner hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay and more recently the Justice Department leaks investigation — both of which the revised speech may address.
But otherwise, it appears it has taken 100 days to be able to craft a speech good enough to make his paranoia about secrecy and lip service to human rights in counterterrorism look like something else.
Ah well, at least they've sharply curtailed drone strikes while they've been writing a speech.
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Hillary Said Appoint a Gitmo Champion; The Opposite Happened
May 17, 2013 /33 Comments/in Gitmo Show Trials, Indefinite Detention /by emptywheel
There's a weird detail in this Daniel Klaidman piece on Obama's claimed newfound commitment to closing Gitmo.
One of the new details in it describes a memo Hillary Clinton wrote just before she left the State Department.
One recent plea, two sources told Newsweek, came from Hillary Clinton, who, just before she left office in January 2013, sent a two-page confidential memo to Obama about Guantánamo.
Now, in one of her last moves as secretary of State, she was making a final effort to prod her boss to do more. Her memo was replete with practical suggestions for moving ahead on Gitmo. Chief among them: Obama needed to appoint a high-level official to be in charge of the effort, someone who had clout and proximity to the Oval Office. Further, Clinton argued that Obama could start transferring the 86 detainees who'd already been cleared for release. (Congress has imposed onerous restrictions on the administration's ability to transfer Gitmo detainees—including a stipulation that the secretary of Defense certify that detainees sent to other countries would not engage in acts of terrorism. In her memo, Clinton pointed out that the administration could use "national-security waivers" to circumvent the restriction.)
The Clinton missive perturbed White House aides, who viewed it as an attempt to put them on the spot, according to a senior administration official. It's unclear how Obama himself reacted to the memo; there's no evidence that it spurred him to action.
I thought to myself as I read this, "but Clinton's departure is precisely when the Administration moved backwards on this front, by reassigning Daniel Fried, who had been in charge of resettling detainees." Fried's reassignment was reported January 29. That was technically while Hillary was still at State — Kerry took over on February 1.
Still, whoever transferred Fried, she must have written that memo (which pissed off Obama's minders) at almost precisely the moment State eliminated the person most focused on working towards Gitmo closure.
Klaidman doesn't entirely ignore this detail. Six paragraphs later he mentions the transfer.
For much of the past few years, without any signal that Obama was going to fight on Gitmo, the policy drifted. Daniel Fried, the veteran State Department official in charge of resettling detainees, was transferred to a different position.
Still, there must be a story explaining why Fried got transferred at precisely the moment Hillary, technically still his boss, was calling to redouble the effort to close Gitmo.
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Harold Koh Relitigates the Argument He Already Lost
May 9, 2013 /7 Comments/in Drones, Gitmo Show Trials, Indefinite Detention /by emptywheel
The NYT thinks the takeaway "news" of Harold Koh's speech on Forever War is his call for more transparency on drone killing. Yet that Koh supports more transparency on drones is not news. Daniel Klaidman has been reporting that since January 2012.
What's newsworthy about this call for transparency, though, is how shrill it is.
But since then, to be candid, this Administration has not done enough to be transparent about legal standards and the decisionmaking process that it has been applying. It had not been sufficiently transparent to the media, to Congress, and to our allies. Because the Administration has been so opaque, a left-right coalition running from Code Pink to Rand Paul has now spoken out against the drone program, fostering a growing perception that the program is not lawful and necessary, but illegal, unnecessary and out of control. The Administration must take responsibility for this failure, because its persistent and counterproductive lack of transparency has led to the release of necessary pieces of its public legal defense too little and too late.
As a result, the public has increasingly lost track of the real issue, which is not drone technology per se, but the need for transparent, agreedupon domestic and international legal process and standards.
Perhaps this shrillness is why Koh ends the speech with a grandiose invocation of our "better angels."
Because I am an American who loves his country, I have served it for ten years of my professional career. My former professor and former Legal Adviser Abram Chayes once said, after he had sued the United States government from the academy, "I have always thought there is nothing wrong with an American lawyer holding the United States to its own best standards." It is in that spirit that tonight, from this important podium, I call my country to its own best values and principles. As President Lincoln famously said, there is still time–indeed, it is high time– for Americans once again to answer to the "better angels" of our national nature.
Though it should be noted that Attorney Abe Lincoln appealed for us to answer to our better angels at the beginning of his service in the Executive Branch, not after he had left that position of influence (something John Wilkes Booth prevented in any case). Why is Harold Koh saying this now?
After all, this battle, the battles for transparency, for "discipline" in the drone program, and for closing Gitmo, are all battles he fought and lost while he was still in government.
It's how Koh relitigates the last of those battles, closing Gitmo, I find most interesting. He calls for the appointment of a Greg Craig type to implement the plan Craig tried to implement himself in the first year of the Obama Administration.
First, and foremost, he must appoint a senior White House official with the clout and commitment to actually make Guantanamo closure happen. There has not been such a person at the White House since Greg Craig left as White House Counsel in early 2010. There must be someone close to the President, with a broad enough mandate and directly answerable to him, who wakes up each morning thinking about how to shrink the Guantanamo population and close the camp.
Second, this White House Envoy need not develop a new paradigm for closing Guantanamo. He or she merely needs to implement the National Archives framework that the President announced three years ago. The White House Envoy should lead the Administration's efforts to implement the three-part framework for closure of the Guantanamo detention facility specified in the President's 2010 speech at the National Archives. That speech described a framework for how this closure could happen: through diplomatic transfers of those individuals who could be safely transferred, prosecution of those who can be tried before civilian courts when possible and military commissions where that is the only option, and third, by commencing the long-overdue legally mandated periodic review of so-called Law of War Detainees to see if any can be released, because of changes either in their attitude or in the conditions of the country to which they could be transferred.
Now, I'm all in favor of closing Gitmo and this might be one way to do it. Koh actually improves on the prior plan by admitting the indefinite detainees will have to be released as the war is over, which is legally correct but misapprehends why they're not being released and why we have to have a Forever War to justify keeping them silent and imprisoned forever.
But Koh's map for closing Gitmo also misrepresents why appointing Greg Craig himself to carry out the Gitmo task didn't work. Read more →
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ICRC President Visits Obama, Brennan, Hagel Regarding "International Humanitarian Law"
April 12, 2013 /29 Comments/in Gitmo Show Trials, Obama Administration /by Jim White
ICRC President Peter Maurer (Wikimedia Commons)
Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, yesterday completed four days of meetings with US officials in Washington. According to the blog site for the ICRC, Maurer met with President Barack Obama, senior members of Congress and a number of high-ranking government figures, including "Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency John Brennan, Deputy Secretary of State William Burns, and Deputy Attorney General James Cole."
It is perhaps not surprising that since there is a widespread hunger strike at Guantanamo (and since the ICRC visited Guantanamo earlier this month), detention issues were high on the list of topics for the meetings:
A focus of Mr Maurer's visit was detention-related matters. "The United States, including its Congress, must urgently find a way to resolve all pending humanitarian, legal and policy issues relating to the detention of persons held at Guantanamo Bay, including those deemed to no longer represent a threat that justifies their continued detention there," said Mr Maurer.
But Guantanamo was not the only topic. It comes as a welcome development to me that Maurer would widen the scope of discussion with key figures such as Obama, Brennan and Hagel to remind them of their duties under international humanitarian law:
"We enjoy a robust and multi-faceted dialogue with the United States, and my visit was an opportunity to discuss issues and contexts of mutual concern such as Syria and Afghanistan," said Mr Maurer. "The United States values the mandate, positions and input of the ICRC and I am confident that this interaction will continue to bring concrete results, notably in terms of implementation of and respect for international humanitarian law in current and future battlefields."
Especially when it comes to Obama and Brennan, it is striking that this statement can be construed as saying that the US needs to implement international humanitarian laws and to respect them. Although not stated outright, it is impossible to come to any other conclusion than to believe that the ICRC now believes that the US does not abide by international humanitarian law. I would think that the US practice of targeted killings, which is viewed by the UN as an issue for international law (and where the UN has called "double tap" drone strikes war crimes) would likely have been a topic for Maurer when talking with Brennan, who has played a key role in ordering drone strikes.
Sadly, I don't share the ICRC's optimism regarding our government's respect for the "mandate, positions and input of the ICRC". We need look no further than the sad news out of Guantanamo yesterday where it now appears that hundreds of thousands of confidential files and communications belonging to Guantanamo defense lawyers have been provided to the prosecution. In addition, a number of key files seem to have disappeared. From Carol Rosenberg: Read more →
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Fifth Terrorist Detainee Brought into Civilian Courts
March 20, 2013 /6 Comments/in Gitmo Show Trials /by emptywheel
This is getting to be a trend.
A six-count indictment was unsealed today in United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York charging Ibrahim Suleiman Adnan Adam Harun, also known as "Spin Ghul," with conspiracy to murder American military personnel in Afghanistan, conspiracy to bomb American diplomatic facilities in Nigeria, conspiracy to provide material support to al Qaeda, providing material support to al Qaeda, and related firearms and explosives counts. The indictment was returned under seal by a federal grand jury sitting in Brooklyn, New York on February 21, 2012, and relates to Harun's alleged activities in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Africa beginning in 2001.
According to court documents, Harun, who was born in Saudi Arabia but claims citizenship in Niger, was extradited from Italy to the United States on October 4, 2012, and arraigned in a sealed proceeding in federal court in Brooklyn, New York on October 5, 2012.
With the three Somalis rendered to the US in November and arraigned in December, and Osama bin Laden's son-in-law Abu Ghaith a few weeks ago, this makes 5 al Qaeda/Shabaab associates brought into the civilian court system in defiance of the 2012 NDAA.
All involve a period of pre-detention either here or abroad (or both), followed by processing in the civilian courts.
We'll see how this approach works out (Ghaith's charges, in particular, may be interesting ones to try, though he is after all OBL's relative, so I assume he'll be convicted regardless). But for now, it seems the Administration is just going to blow off Congress' demands for military detention.
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Our latest cooking saga started innocently enough. Carolyn said; "we are in California, shouldn't we post a Cioppino recipe"? And I said, "Sure, I like Cioppino".
Little did I know that this recipe would require some real work. This is not to say you shouldn't make Cioppino at home. It is not hard to make, but it is hard to get right. This is a dish usually made in restaurants a la minute', rather than in a big pot at home. So little details do matter, and you need to use a good recipe or you can spend hours (or in the case of Cooks Illustrated, every dish in your kitchen) with little benefit and get an underwhelming dish. And this is a seafood dish, and that means you will be spending some real money on ingredients, so it had better be good.
Oh, and did I mention messy to eat? Well, it is. Do not serve this to people who are squeamish about eating seafood with their hands. Eating Cioppino often leads to wearing Cioppino. White clothing is not recommended.
– You need to pick the freshest and best seafood available in your area. Don't compromise, less is more. You can pick from clams, mussels, shrimp, crab (cooked), squid and firm white fish. You do not need all of these ingredients in the Cioppino, but you should start with clams and/or mussels, as their juices will augment the broth.
– Cioppino is a two-step process. The first step is making a flavorful base of tomato, fish stock or clam juice and aromatics. This can be done ahead of time. In fact, making the base early in the day and/or letting flavors meld in the fridge overnight is a good thing.
– Making your own fumet (fish stock) is usually too much of a pain and hard to get right. Frozen fish stock is pretty bland. Unless you make fumet regularly or have a good source for stock, clam juice mixed with some water is a good choice.
– As for the second step of the recipe, making the final dish, you need to be paying very close attention throughout. Seafood cooks quickly, and if you are not ready, tender seafood will become rubber before you know it.
– Finally, serve the Cioppino in BIG bowls and serve as much as you can at once. Why? Because the seafood left in the big pot will keep cooking and get tough. This may seem fussy, but trust us, you can tell. Or, you can remove all the seafood you don't serve from the broth and reheat. If you take that path, be ready to clean your entire kitchen. Your choice.
Once we got some of the keys figured out, we found the process of making Cioppino pretty straightforward. Firstly we started our base with softened aromatics including onion, garlic, parsley, basil and bay.
Building the final dish was pretty simple, but did require some attention. We quickly steamed the clams for a few minutes then added the mussels until both started to open. We added the tomato base, brought it to a boil, tasted for seasoning, seasoned and then added the crab, shrimp (and/or fish if you are using), then we covered the pot and turned off the heat. The shrimp finished cooking in 5 minutes with residual heat, but by limiting direct heat the clams and mussels remained tender. We then served the Cioppino immediately in big bowls (could have been even bigger). Our final, and important, step was to liberally squeeze lemon juice over the dish. We consistently found a need for some acidity to counter the sweetness of the seafood and tomato.
When eating, we recommend some crusty bread for dipping and a big bowl at the table for empty shells. And bring plenty of napkins.
– See above for general guidelines.
– Use the widest pot you can when making this dish. Wider pans will allow the seafood to spread and cook more evenly.
– Like all seafood dishes, discard any mussels or clams that do not open.
What You Get: A hearty seafood stew you can make with store-bought ingredients.
What You Need: No special equipment required. A big, wide pot (as noted above) helps.
How Long? 2 hours of cooking time with about 30 minutes of active time (plus any time you spend letting the Cioppino base rest). Plan on extra time for the dishes. This is really a weekend dish.
Place a large pot or saucepan over medium heat. Once heated add the olive oil and onions. Sweat the onions until soft, stirring occasionally, about 5 minutes.
Add the garlic, basil, parsley and bay leaves. Stir frequently for one minute. Do not brown the garlic.
Stir in the diced tomatoes, tomato puree, clam juice, water, Worcestershire sauce, celery salt, cinnamon, saffron, red pepper flake and smoked paprika. Bring to a boil and then lower heat and bring to a simmer. Simmer for 1 hour, stirring occasionally.
Remove from heat. Remove bay leaves. Use in Cioppino or reserve for later use.
Place a wide, deep pot over medium heat. When hot add butter and olive oil. Add garlic and cook, stirring frequently, for 1-2 minutes or until fragrant. Do not brown.
Add the clams and wine. Increase heat to medium-high. Cover pot and steam clams for 2-3 minutes or until they start to open slightly. Add mussels and steam for another 2 minutes or until they start to open.
Add Cioppino base, stir, and bring to a boil. Taste Cioppino and season to taste. Add crab and shrimp, stir and be sure shrimp are submerged. Cover pot, remove from heat and let stand for 5 minutes. The shrimp will cook in the residual heat.
When shrimp are done (they will be opaque) ladle the Cioppino immediately into large bowls. Squeeze lemons over the Cioppino and serve with crusty bread.
you mention garlic the base recipe instructions but leave it out as an ingredient. how much garlic did you put into the base and did you chop it first?
also, in the base recipe ingredients you say 1 can of peeled tomatoes and then the instructions say put in diced tomatoes without any other instructions. did you want us to dice them and include the juice from the can or not?
you don't say in the instruction portion when to put in salt & pepper but I see it above in your overall comments.
how long do you put the fish in for and do you chop it or cut it into what size pieces or season it in any way? will it cook in the 5 min. off heat?
Sorry that we missed some stuff. Will edit (thx).
The ingredient list should say canned, diced tomatoes. But if you have whole ones, just squash them with your hands or the back of a spoon.
We did not put fish in this version, but the best way is to cut firm white fish into 3/4 inch pieces. You would add the fish at the same time as the shrimp and let it cook in the residual heat for 5 minutes. or until firm.
thanks! made it last night and it came out great!! everyone loved it and I like the way you combined the 3 recipes. I was looking at all 3 myself as the 3 that would have the best results.
Glad you liked it! Sorry for the missing details on the recipe, but glad you asked and let us know!


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Love endures all things.
Darby McKenzie's heart started beating funny the day that she met Trace Chamberlain. She was four, he was five, and that meeting altered the course of both their lives forever.
Trace was born into a nightmare. Before meeting Darby and her family, the only love he ever knew was that of his twin brother. The two of them endured years of abuse that left scars. The permanent kind.
For Trace, meeting Darby was like catching a rainbow. She exploded into his life in a pop of Technicolor that awakened his senses. She wasn't just his best friend—she was his life. His touchstone, his safety, his heart—she was everything.
Darby had been through it all with Trace and her love for him never wavered for a second. But no amount of love could make Trace believe that he was worthy of her. Knowing that she deserved better,
Trace pushed her away, when what he really wanted was to pull her closer. Emotionally destroyed and bitter from the back and forth, Darby finally let go and decided to move on.
Sometimes hitting rock bottom is the only way to understand that you need to change. Realizing that losing Darby means losing everything, Trace sets out to fight for the love of his life.
Is it too late for Darby and Trace to have a happily ever after?
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"We can talk every day on the phone or by text and Skype, right?" he asked anxiously. I knew if I said yes, he'd call every day. Distance would be useless if I didn't put my foot down. "Once a week," I told him. "Pick a day and we'll talk then. This is our time to redefine our relationship." "I don't want anything to change," he complained. "I don't want to see less of you or spend six fucking days a week not hearing your voice. Even thinking about doing it makes me feel sick."
I understood how he felt because I was experiencing all the same anxiety, but I stood my ground. "This is the way it needs to be for a while," I answered. "You can like it or lump it, but I'm not backing down. Call me next Friday." When I went to leave, I let him hug me because friends hugged. I counted off five seconds and then pulled away. He tried to hold tighter, but I wiggled away. The benefits of being strong meant that he couldn't keep me where I didn't want to be. "We can't hug?" he asked in a panicked tone. "We can," I said calmly. "When I hug Tristan, it's probably a two or three second process. I gave you five. Friends don't hug for minutes at a time unless there's a crisis." "This is a crisis! You're fucking leaving me." I knew then that drawing it out any more was only going to make things worse. There were times when cutting something short was the way to go, and that moment was one of them. "This isn't a crisis," I refuted calmly. "This is a reality. I'll talk to you next week. Take care of yourself." I kept my chin up as I walked away, and I ignored him when he called out my name three separate times.
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Mia Reeves faith, trust and sense of security were all taken away in the blink of an eye. In need of a fresh start, she settles into a new town and begins to make a new life.
Tristan Chamberlain has always kept girls at arm's length and he has no intention of changing. He's caring, smart, handsome, but he's also dealing with a lifetime of guilt that's slowly but surely destroying him.
Sometimes what you run from is the one thing that will save you.
Separately, they're both free-falling. Together, they're about to find that love can create the strongest safety net of all.
Ella Fox writes like a woman possessed whenever she gets the chance! She is the author of The Hart Family Series, The Renegade Saints Series and The Catch Series.
When she's not writing, Ella indulges the gypsy in her blood and travels the country.
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She has a wild sense of humor and loves to laugh. Her favorite thing in the world is hanging out with her family and watching comedy movies.
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Devils take Capitals to overtime, but still can't get first win in season series
Robert Aitken Jr.
NorthJersey.com
The only team the Devils have not yet beaten in 2021 was the Washington Capitals. The East-division leading Capitals have been the best goal scoring team in the division this season and have been able to score frequently at times. That was not the case on Friday night as the Devils kept things close and allowed just one goal in regulation.
"For whatever reason, it's been a tough matchup for us," said coach Lindy Ruff. "The first period was kind of a chess match. I thought there was periods where their veteran guys took the game over."
The Devils could not notch the team's first win in seven tries this season against the division leaders, falling 2-1 in overtime at Prudential Center. The Devils are now 0-5-2 this season against the Capitals, the only team within the division in which the Devils have yet to defeat this season.
The Devils will hope to avoid being shut out in the win column against the Capitals on Sunday afternoon in the final regular season matchup between the teams.
"We're just going to treat it like another game," said Ruff. "For whatever reason, they've had our number. It hasn't been a great matchup for us and we've had our opportunties."
Nearly a different result
In the final minutes of regulation, Jack Hughes rang a shot off the post that would have possibly avoided overtime entirely. Instead, the young star for the Devils was quite active in overtime. A highlight reel feed to Andreas Johnsson nearly resulted in a game-winner in the extra five minutes, but it wasn't able to be buried by Johnsson.
"I was just trying to give up some speed and Jack did a good job of dragging some guys to him," Johnsson said about the play. "I just tried to sneak out on the other side and they forgot me. They're lucky I didn't score there. That was a good opportunity for us."
Later in overtime, PK Subban's feed to Travis Zajac put the puck near the goal, but was turned aside. It was on the ensuing rush following Zajac's attempt that Dmitry Orlov poked the game-winner past Mackenzie Blackwood.
Blackwood shuts the door
Blackwood had his fourth start of the season against the Capitals on Friday night. In the first three starts, Blackwood allowed at least three goals each time. But Blackwood has played much better as of late and looked refreshed with the team's recent off days. Blackwood stopped 38 shots on the night, including turning aside Conor Sheary just seconds into overtime on a breakaway try.
"Mackenzie gave us a real sound game," said Ruff. "I thought we had two or three opportunities in overtime to win him a game, but we didn't finish those opportunities. He gave us that opportunity to get those chances later on. It's been a battle. It's been an up and down season for him, but he's trending in the right direction for us."
Blackwood earned the second star of the night with his great effort. Blackwood has at least 30 saves in six of his last seven starts. The Devils have wins in four of those seven games and have earned at least one point in all but one of the games in that span.
"You can't really control the amount of shots you face," said Blackwood. "People look at the amount of shots and say you had a great game. Shots aren't exactly everything. Sometimes you play games where they don't shoot the puck much but you're doing the same amount of work."
Making the shots count
The Capitals had nearly double the amount of shots that the Devils did the entire night. Washington had 15 shots alone in the second period, while the Devils had just 13 total shots in the first two periods combined. Yet, the score remained close throughout and the Devils earned a point in the standings despite a disadvantage in chances offensively.
The Devils only trailed for about four and a half minutes of the second period after John Carlson got the Capitals on the board. In the second period, Michael McLeod's sixth goal of the season tied the game again at one. It was the second straight game for McLeod with a goal and Ryan Murray earned another assist. Murray has assisted on three of the last four Devils goals, dating back to Tuesday's loss against Boston.
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Contractor appointed for £1.75m North Belfast Scheme
Choice Housing has appointed GEDA Construction, a leading Building, Civil Engineering and Property Development Company to complete a £1.75 million overhaul refurbishment of James Court Sheltered Living Scheme in North Belfast.
The Dungannon based company who have projects across the UK and Ireland will begin work onsite December 2019 and the project is estimated to take a total of 18 months.
The North Belfast Scheme comprises of 54 one and two bedroom apartments. Built in 1980, the renovations will ensure a continued high standard of living for residents, which will include new kitchens and bathrooms, as well as, internal decoration and flooring. Fire Safety measures and re-wiring of the building will also ensure continued safety regulations are complied with.
Michael McDonnell, Group Chief Executive at Choice Housing said:
""We are pleased to get the regeneration of James Court under way with GEDA Construction. This scheme is an integral part of addressing the ongoing need of social homes in North Belfast. Choice has, in 2018/19 invested £14m on capital planned maintenance of our stock and we are committed to continuing this regeneration of both new and existing developments.
"Like all of our collaborations, we aim to work with organisations who can deliver efficient quality services who has experience and expertise in their field. GEDA Construction have exactly that and we look forward to launching the new and improved scheme in early 2021".
James Court, Kansas Avenue is located close to a range of local amenities, allowing residents to live independently while safe in the knowledge there is support and security if they need it.
Damian Murray, from GEDA Construction added:
"We are pleased to continue our working relationship with Choice Housing and look forward to delivering this project. The works will incorporate the very best standards and the latest in energy saving technology and will enable Choice tenants to make the most of high quality, safe homes at an affordable price."
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Court & Police Couple's row ends in woman's housemate stabbing boyfriend in the face
Court & Police Two cleared of smashing barman's skull during bar brawl
National [WATCH] 'Marsa stables aren't homes,' Planning Authority clamps down on illegal change-of-use
Former policeman, accused of HSBC heist, testifies after five-year wait
Lawyer David Gatt blasts prosecution's star witness, former police constable Mario Portelli
by Matthew Agius
Lawyer and accused David Gatt
The former police inspector turned lawyer, David Gatt, has denied charges of involvement in four hold-ups, telling a court that he will not forgive the former policeman who had testified against him.
Gatt finally had his day in court after waiting over five and a half years for the opportunity.
Gatt is accused of complicity in no less than four attempted armed robberies: the 2007 hold-up of the Balzan HSBC branch, in which around €1 million had been stolen, an attempted hold-up of a security van carrying €2.8 million at Santa Venera in 2010, another failed hold-up at HSBC's Ruzar Briffa Centre at Qormi that same year and an attempted hold up of a jewellery shop in Attard.
The 2010 heist at the high-security HSBC centre had culminated in a shootout with police, in which nobody was injured.
Gatt was also accused of assisting his accomplice Fabio Psaila to escape from police custody, arranging for medical treatment for Darren Debono, another accomplice who had suffered gunshot wounds in the failed Attard robbery and with attempting to prevent Dr John Zammit Montebello, who had treated Debono, from contacting the police.
From the witness stand, Gatt recalled how, as he had been leaving for a holiday in Scotland, he had been approached by former Police Commissioner John Rizzo in 2001 to resign over allegations that he had close relations with known criminals. He was sacked from the police corps three months later.
Gatt practiced law for nine years since his dismissal from the force, having won a constitutional case for unfair dismissal which ordered his reinstatement into the police force but was objected to by the Permanent Secretary to the Office of the Prime Minister. A court injunction on this case is still pending.
In court today, Gatt attacked the prosecution's star witness, former police constable Mario Portelli, who had appointed Gatt as his lawyer during his own marital separation proceedings.
He and Portelli would occasionally go out drinking together, the lawyer said, adding that Portelli would badmouth several police officers during these sessions. Gatt recalled how on one occasion, Portelli told him that he had gone to a farm belonging to his ex-father in law and killed two dogs. Portelli had also revealed to him that he had been blackmailing a surgeon from Kappara with a video, the contents of which were not mentioned in court.
Gatt hinted that Portelli was gay, and that this had been a factor in their falling-out, as Portelli had taken offence at Gatt warning his client Fabio Psaila about fraternising too much with Portelli.
Portelli later had several meetings with Commissioner Rizzo, during which the witness told the court that he surmised that he had been the topic of discussion.
The lawyer said that he had given Fabio Psaila Dr John Zammit Montebello's phone number and "a day or two later" heard the news that police had raided a Balzan clinic to arrest Darren Debono and Vince Muscat.
Gatt denied suggestions that Zammit Montebello had asked him not to mention his name during proceedings.
Portelli had alleged that Gatt had planned the hold-up on jewellery shop after its owner, Michael Mizzi, had refused to pay Gatt a reward or tip for finding a suitcase belonging to the businessman. Today, Gatt insisted that he had never found any suitcases during the course of his career in the police force and alleged that Portelli would use a police car to cruise near Manoel Island for prostitutes.
He also claimed that strands of long hair which had been found in the car belonged to those prostitutes, shed as they serviced Portelli and another officer.
The accused also claimed that pirated copies of "the Godfather" films which had been found at his house during a police raid, had been obtained by Portelli. Prison warders would play the Godfather soundtrack whenever his parents would visit him in prison, Gatt recalled bitterly.
He would not forgive Portelli for testifying against him, he said. "I'm not a priest."
"I suffered a great deal [because of him]. I lost my job and office. For a time I was treated like a leper. There were many betrayals by many people," a pained Gatt recalled.
The case continues on the 25th May.
Inspector Joseph Mercieca is prosecuting. Lawyers Joseph Giglio and Edward Gatt are defending the accused. Magistrate Antonio Micallef Trigona is presiding.
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Transition metal distribution in the brain and spinal cord of a dysmyelinated rodent
Authors: Alia Al-ebraheem (McMaster University) , Lauren Miller (McMaster University) , Kalotina Geraki (Diamond Light Source) , Kimberly L. Desmond (Sunnybrook Research Institute; University of Toronto) , Greg J. Stanisz (Sunnybrook Research Institute; University of Toronto) , Nicholas A. Bock (McMaster University) , Michael Farquharson (McMaster University)
Co-authored by industrial partner: No
Type: Conference Paper
Conference: ICXOM23
Peer Reviewed: No
State: Published (Approved)
Diamond Proposal Number(s): 9704
Abstract: Transition metal concentrations in the central nervous system (CNS) are altered in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and multiple sclerosis. A common symptom of these diseases is demyelination, which is the degradation of the myelin sheath that encapsulates the neurons in vertebrates. Transition metal concentrations were measured in Long Evans Shaker (LES) rodent model and compared to healthy age-matched controls to investigate the relationship between transition metals and myelination. Micro probe Synchrotron Radiation X-ray Fluorescence (µSRXRF) was used to measure concentrations of manganese (Mn), iron (Fe), copper (Cu), and zinc (Zn) in regions of grey matter and white matter in Shaker rodents and their age-matched Long Evans (LE) controls in the cerebellum and spinal cord. In the cerebellum, the concentrations of all elements were significantly increased in the white matter of the Shaker model, and decreased in the gray matter of the Shaker model in comparison to their age and region matched controls. In the spinal cord samples, concentrations of all metals were higher in white matter and grey matter of Shaker rat spinal cord compared to those in the control rat spinal cord. This study demonstrated that the sensitivity of µSRXRF is sufficient to discriminate between the elemental distributions of gray and white matter of the brain sections and spinal cords in the two groups. The observed significant increase of Mn, Fe, Zn and Cu in the white matter of the Shaker animals in the cerebellum and spinal cord compared to controls could be the result of astrocytic glial cells replacing the myelin in the CNS. Unlike other imaging techniques, the fine resolution of µSRXRF enables specific regions of gray matter structures namely, the molecular layer and the granule layer to be identified in the rat CNS, and their transition metal concentrations to be quantified. This work will further establish µSRXRF as a powerful analytic technique for compositional studies in brain sections from models of brain disease.
Journal Keywords: Brain; Central nervous system; Zinc; Copper; Synchrotron radiation
Subject Areas: Medicine, Biology and Bio-materials
Instruments: I18-Microfocus Spectroscopy
Other Facilities: ANKA, Germany
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Q: Multiple wp_query loops showing first 5 posts on all pages instead of older posts[Resolved] I am trying to highlight the newest post in a separate layout and rest of them in a masonry index. There are 5 posts per page and I am getting the newest 5 posts on previous posts pages as well.
I had all posts in a single loop under masonry index. I tried making the first element of masonry index a different width via css first-of-type property but it disturbs the masonry layout. Then I decided to use a separate loop for first post and second one with masonry layout for rest of posts, but I ended up getting first 5 posts on every page where older posts should be shown. Please advise how this can be resolved. Thanks in advance!
<?php
//First Query
$args1 = array(
'posts_per_page'   => 1,
'post_type'        => 'albums',
'post_status'      => 'publish',
 );
$query1 = new WP_Query($args1);

//First Loop
if ( $query1->have_posts() ) {
  while ( $query1->have_posts() ) {
    $query1->the_post();?>
    <?php get_template_part( 'entry-slide',get_post_type('albums') ); ?>
    <?php comments_template();
  }
 }
   wp_reset_postdata();

  echo'
';
  //Query2

$args2 = array(
'offset'           => 1,
'post_type'        => 'albums',
'post_status'      => 'publish',
'suppress_filters' => true );

$query2 = new WP_Query( $args2 );

//loop2
if ( $query2->have_posts() ) {
 while( $query2->have_posts() ) {
    $query2->the_post();?>

    <?php get_template_part( 'entry',get_post_type('albums') ); ?>

   <?php comments_template();
   }
 } //end second loop

 echo '
';
 get_template_part( 'nav', 'below' );?>

 <?php get_sidebar(); ?>

  <?php get_footer(); ?>

UPDATE #1:
Wow! this worked(I added $paged variable before the loops):
  $paged = ( get_query_var('paged') ) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;

and then in the args i removed the offsets and added this instead:
  'paged' => $paged

But now I am getting a duplicate latest post because of removing the offset in the second loop. Please share your ideas on how the duplicate can be removed. Will this work : add offset in second loop in $args2 if it is the first page? Let me try and I'll share how that worked.
UPDATE #2
I have added this code to add an offset and remove duplicate latest post on the 1st page:
if ( $paged == 1 ){
          $offset=1;
      } else{
          $offset='';
      }

This helped but I am getting a post duplicate in the previous posts. I am yet to figure out why that's happening (and would appreciate if you can share your ideas). Rest all good.

A: Perhaps check to see within the first loop if its paged or not based on the value you set for the 'posts per page' arguments. If not paged show the results via your template, if it is paged, then do nothing...
//First Loop
if ( $query1->have_posts() ) {
  while ( $query1->have_posts() ) {
    $query1->the_post();?>
    <?php if ( is_paged() == false ) { get_template_part( 'entry-slide',get_post_type('albums') ); } ?>
    <?php comments_template();
  }
 }
   wp_reset_postdata();

I have not tested this. Reference for is_paged(); condition: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_paged

A: This helped remove the issue of the same first 5 posts being repeated on all pages:
$paged = ( get_query_var('paged') ) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;

and then in the args i removed the offsets and added this instead:
'paged' => $paged
To avoid getting post duplicate in the first page:
 if ( $paged == 1 ){
      $offset=1;
  } else{
      $offset='';
  }

This is still giving a post duplicate in the previous pages. So I am yet to get a complete solution.

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Q: Using induction starting from 1 in Coq I am trying to use induction starting from 1 in a Coq proof. From this question I got a proof of the induction principle I need:
Section induction_at_1.
  Variable P : nat -> Prop.
  Hypothesis p1 : P 1.
  Hypothesis pS : forall n, P n -> P (S n).

  Theorem induction_at_1:
    forall n, n > 0 -> P n.

    induction n; intro.
    - exfalso; omega.
    - destruct n.
      + apply p1.
      + assert (S n >= 1) by omega.
        intuition.
  Qed.
End induction_at_1.

What I get looks structurally very similar to standard induction. In fact, Check nat_ind yields
nat_ind:
  forall P : nat -> Prop,
  P 0 ->
  (forall n : nat, P n -> P (S n)) ->
  forall n : nat, P n

while Check induction_at_1 yields
induction_at_1:
  forall P : nat -> Prop,
  P 1 ->
  (forall n : nat, P n -> P (S n)) ->
  forall n : nat, n > 0 -> P n

The issue arises when I try to apply this induction principle. For instance, I would like to prove by induction
Lemma cancellation:
  forall a b c: nat, a > 0 -> a * b = a * c -> b = c.

This seems exactly suited to the kind of induction I have above, but when I start my proof like this
  intros a b c H0 H1.
  induction a using induction_at_1.

I get the following error, which I cannot interpret:
Not the right number of induction arguments (expected 2 arguments).

Since the two induction principles look almost identical to me, I am not sure why this does not work. Any ideas?

A: I also find this behavior puzzling, but there are a few ways around it.  One is to use the ssreflect induction tactic, called elim:
From Coq Require Import ssreflect.

Lemma cancellation:
  forall a b c: nat, a > 0 -> a * b = a * c -> b = c.
Proof.
intros a b c H.
elim/induction_at_1: a / H.
(* ... *)
Abort.

The second line is telling Coq to perform induction on H (not a) while generalizing a and using the induction principle induction_at_1. I couldn't get something similar to work using the regular Coq induction.
An alternative is to use plain natural number induction. In this case, I believe that the lemma follows by induction on b while generalizing c (I am not sure that induction on a works).  If you do need to show something of the form m <= n -> P n for all n, you can replace n by n - m + m (which should be possible with the m <= n hypothesis), and then prove P (n - m + m) by induction on n - m.


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