JAG CENTRAL

A Guard and Prisoner Depicted by Fernando Botero (NY Times)

From the NY Times, 'Great Crime' at Abu Ghraib Enrages and Inspires an Artist ("Fernando Botero, Latin America's best-known living artist, shocked the art world last year when he broke sharply from his usual depictions of small town life to reveal new works that depicted Colombia's war in horrific detail. Now, Mr. Botero, 73, who lives in Paris and New York, has taken on an even more explosive topic: the torture of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Forty-eight paintings and sketches - of naked prisoners attacked by dogs, dangling from ropes, beaten by guards, in a mangled heap of bodies - will be exhibited in Rome at the Palazzo Venezia museum on June 16."); Navy Outlines Errors Preceding Fatal Submarine Crash ("Navy investigators have found that a series of mistakes both at sea and in preparations onshore helped cause a nuclear submarine to crash into an undersea mountain in January, killing one sailor and injuring 97 others. In a report released here on Sunday, the Navy pinned most of the blame on the top officers of the submarine. But investigators also found that deficiencies in navigation charts and in giving the submarine its routing helped set the stage for the accident.").

No news articles from the Washington Post on military justice. However, On Monday, May 9, at 2 p.m. ET, there will be a live discussion at Washingtonpost.com of Army SGT Erik Saar and Time Correspondent Viveca Novak's new book, "Inside the Wire," which paints a dim picture of harsh detainee treatment at Guantanamo. You can find the discussion by clicking here.