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Am I the only one who’s starting to think they may be doing this kind of shit on purpose?
Excellent point from the article.
If you are going to try these men in civilian courts with rules designed to rein in law enforcement officials, not soldiers in battle who must operate under different circumstances, you should be prepared to take the consequences of releasing them to do more acts of murder and terrorism if you lose. If you are unwilling to take that very substantial gamble with national security, try them in military courts, which have more appropriately fashioned rules to make sure that evidence is sound and obtained in a manner more suited to the circumstances than those designed to deal with, say, armed robbery.
I thought the president guaranteed that these guys would be convicted. Maybe I was too scared to understand him properly, or something.
Great.Job.Holder.You whining scold…
He and Obama, who if you recall are always the smartest guys in any room, were told continuously by credible critics that using the civilian justice system to try wartime criminals would not end happily; and the proclaimed all such critics to be h8yers that were onkly motivated by partisan politics.
They put all their cred, admittedly not much, behind this premise and failed miserably…
So now some friggin’ terrorist, who admitted to killing hundreds of people, will serve less than 20 years in the klink, if sentancing guidlines are followed and his time already served is considered, as is usual and customary.
Well congratulations to Kaptain Kickazz and the AG “Scolder”, who by bitterly clinging to their ideology have put the US in a terrible position.
I mean, can they really release this guy after his sentance is served? I think not, unless you want to guarantee he strikes again; or at minimum becomes a much heralded recruiting agent.
And say we don’t? Then this whole exercise was a sham, and reminiscent of the “Show Trials” in the former Soviet Union.
Another promise that reached it’s expiration date scooter…They all do eventually.
Andy McCarthy, Cassandra.
Sen Sessions has a few questions for AG Eric Holder sitting before the Judiciary committee, just after Holder had annunciated the decision to try KSM and others in Federal Court in NYC, posted on YouTube Nov 18, 2009.
Holder clearly demonstrates he has no rationale for his decision, though he claims there was “not a political component to [his] decision”.
Sen Kyl drives home the point in further questioning in the same session.
If it as McCarthy recounted in geoffb’s link, than Ghalani’s attorney should be disbarred as well, for using the security concerns of the Feds to as cover to essentially lie to the jury.
The antics of guys like him, and the O.J. dream team, give attorneys a bad name.
The antics of guys like him, and the O.J. dream team, give attorneys a bad name.
It’s like they say: 90% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
Pop quiz: Most members of Congress were members of what “profession” before being elected?
The antics of guys like him, and the O.J. dream team, give attorneys a bad name.
Hey! Some of my best friends are attorneys. Some even live in my county, I think.
My god, he’s worse than Reno.
But more to the point, I don’t think this is part of plot to intentionally weaken America. I prefer to think of it (borrowing Frotus’s analogy) as 2 retarded kids finding keys to a car and somehow starting it up, and running over everything in sight, while being so severely retarded that they don’t even realize that the car is actually moving.
It’s only a lie if you can “prove it,” Bob.
In the same session of the Judiciary Committee shown above, Princess Lindsay has a bit of sport with AG Holder on the question of Mirandizing Osama bin Laden.
Dan unloads on “Scolder” here ( http://tiny.cc/scolder ). It’s definitely worth looking at.
Heckuva job, Ricky.
Imagine the howls from the left if Ashcroft or Gonzales only got 1 of 280 charges…
Do you mean “prove it” in the evidentiary sense Ernst, or in the sense that Jack Palance used it in Shane ( http://tiny.cc/proveit )?
Remember kiddies, military tribunals make us look bad. Killing terrorist “suspects” from 20,000 feet with remotely triggered hellfire missles carried by oversized kids’ toys? That doesn’t make us look like anything, even when there’s collateral damage. No network news cameras, you see.
More in the evidentiary sense Bob, but also in the the truth is a lie/a lie is the truth …if the judge/jury/3rd partys says so, objectively way that for some reason comes up in discussion around here from time to time.
That’s a great showdown in Shane. The only other dialog as prelude to killin’ that’s close is Open Range
“You the one that killed our friend?”
“That’s right. I shot the boy too and I enjoyed it.”
Holder is focusing on more important things, like not prosecuting black racists like the black panthers.
Matt has apparently forgotten that black folks, by definition, cannot be racist. It’s back to the re-education camp for him.
Yeah, some troll recently dropped by to let us know that, too, cranky. I remember being shocked that that tact is still being used by, well anyone.
Interesting.
One sane woman seeing through the defense council’s bullshit appears to have an been unwelcome distraction…
The defense’s claim that “Foopie” Ghailani never intended to harm anyone (!), just blow up the building, then the same could legitimately be said about Timothy McVeigh, or even Mohammed Atta for that matter.
And the broccoli stalks on the jury believed it…
Spiny, I can only imagine who they seated on that jury…
The New York Times suggests this may fuel new debate about where these people should be tried. No detail, large or small, gets by those guys!
A guy in his late forties who is acting like he is playing T ball.