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A coalition of major news organizations is challenging as unconstitutional Pentagon rules that were used in May to ban four reporters from covering military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.A coalition of major news organizations is challenging as unconstitutional Pentagon... more
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The American Bar Association, the American Civil Liberties Union, and numerous other legal organizations are demanding that the Senate Armed Services Committee reject a provision in a House of Representatives bill that would mandate an investigation into lawyers representing Guantanamo Bay detainees.The American Bar Association, the American Civil Liberties Union, and numerous other... more
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A former interrogator at the US prison in Bagram, Afghanistan said in court testimony that he and other interrogators would terrify detainees into confessing by threatening them with dying from multiple gang rape "by four big black guys" who would catch little Afghan boys in the shower of a U.S. prison.A former interrogator at the US prison in Bagram, Afghanistan said in court testimony... more
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The Bush administration prosecuted, after 9-11, 828 people on terrorism charges in civilian courts. At the time of publication of this excellent report from the Center on Law and Security, NYU School of Law last year, trials were still pending against 235 of those folks. That leaves 593 resolved indictments, of which 523 were convicted of some crime, for a conviction rate of 88%.
With regard to military tribunals, the Bush administration inaugurated 20 such cases. So far just three convictions have been won. The highest-profile is the conviction of Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's driver. The Hamdan legal saga, rehearsed here, doesn't exactly suggest that military tribunals provide swifter and surer and tougher justice. In the end, he was convicted all right, but sentenced -- not by a bunch of New York City Democrats, but by a military jury! -- to five and half years.
Then, the tribunal judge, a US Navy captain, gave Hamdan credit for time served, which was five years. So he served six months after conviction. Today he's back in -- guess where? -- Yemen.
So here's the situation. Bush/Cheney found civilian prosecution a perfectly acceptable path to pursue in 828 cases. They've won convictions at an impressive rate in those civilian prosecutions. The most high-profile military prosecution was kind of a disaster.
And yet, Obama is a weakling because Abdulmutallab is being treated the way the Bush administration treated 828 "suspects," to use a word the right has declared reveals a girly-mannish mindset. Amazing. And again: where are the Democrats who are saying this?The Bush administration prosecuted, after 9-11, 828 people on terrorism charges in... more
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Obama, do NOT send the terrorist (KSM) Khalid Sheikh Mohammed خالد شيخ محمد back to (NYC) New York City for trial in a civilian federal court. The Federal Bureau of Investigations is having to form a special squad to protect the citizenry. Think of all those who died on 9/11, and their survivors who continue to suffer. Remember our soldiers who now fight and die in our war against Islamic radicals. This is a sacrilege to all Americans! Obama, tell your crazy Attorney General Eric Holder to try this murdering Muslim in a military tribunal.
This video was comprised of newspaper headlines across our country after the day of infamy - September 11, 2001.
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Music by Michael KenObama, do NOT send the terrorist (KSM) Khalid Sheikh Mohammed خالد شيخ... more
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