Ex-Prosecutors Urge Access for Detainees

AP via SFGate ^ | 4/30/7

[SmithL]

WASHINGTON, (AP) -- A bipartisan group of 39 former prosecutors told Congress on Monday that detainees at Guantanamo Bay should be granted access to U.S. courts.

"If the men at Guantanamo are not provided these rights, a cloud will always remain over the validity of their detention," the prosecutors said in a letter to Congress.

Only 10 of an estimated 385 men held at the prison in Cuba have been charged with war crimes, and there are plans to charge 14 more transferred there from CIA prisons last year.

"That leaves approximately 360 men who may never be brought before a military commission," said the letter.

In 2004 and 2006, the Supreme Court ruled that the detainees have access to the U.S. court system. After the ruling last year, Congress enacted the Military Commissions Act to strip the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., of jurisdiction . . .

[SmithL]

Clinton and Reno treated the first WTC attack as a criminal act, and that got us the 2nd attack. This is war.

[sgtbono2002]

These people are too dangerous to be provided with shyster lawyers with technicalities and other OJ tricks to get them loose so they can kill again.

[Bahbah]

BS...not directed at what you said.

[WTSand]

“Ex-prosecutors” = lawyers looking for a payday.

[acapesket]

Let’s just review this list... anybody have a copy?Time for a little “truth in advertising”.
Let’s make the ‘ad pitch’ match the ‘copy’.

[snowrip]

"If the men at Guantanamo are not provided these rights, a cloud will always remain over the validity of their detention,"

Only to America-hating, socialist $h!tbags like the liberal buttplugs that wrote this letter. Go lick Pelosi's feet... and STFU.

[Congressman Billybob]

One would think that "former prosecutors" would 1) know how to read, and 2) actually have read the relevant Supreme Court decisions on this subject, like the unanimous one in 1942 which approved trials like this. Somehow, I think this "bipartisan" group contains mostly Clinton prosecutors who think law is whatever you can get away with. One renegade Republican would then make this a bipartisan deal.

You figure that's what the AP mysteriously missed in writing this article?

Congressman Billybob

Latest article: "To Raise the Edifice (Geo. Washington on the Constitution)"

[snowrip]

"Some of us are Republicans and some of us are Democrats," the letter stated. "It was fundamentally important to us that the justice system be both effective and fair."

There are plenty of idiots on both sides of the aisle. Fairness has no place in the democrat lexicon... unless it is to allow criminals to have more rights than the citizens whose lives they endanger... or to allow the dumbass liberal argument du jour a place in the arena of rational thought.

[facedown]

“Those signing the letter include former Attorney General Janet Reno; Earl Silbert, former U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia during the Watergate scandal; former FBI Director William S. Sessions; and Dan Webb, former U.S. attorney in Chicago.”

[YOUGOTIT]

“A bipartisan group of 39 former prosecutors”

First I think the word bipartisan is a LIE. Second I no longer believe anyone who supports the terrorist. Third I as an American citizen I no longer believe any person who is a Federal Persecutor after all the lies and false trials that have been conducted.

[acapesket]

Thta’s 4 out of 39. BFD. I am sure the rest are Clintonista/Soros types.
List.. please.

[Harrius Magnus]

Professor Terguson: Good answer. Good answer. I like the way you think. I’m gonna be watching you.

[Baladas]

4 of 39 isn’t bi-partisan, it’s partisan. Typical BS, put one Republican in with several Democrats and call it “bi-partisan”.

How many of the 39 are with either/both the ACLU and Amensty International?

[outofstyle]

If the men at Guantanamo are not provided these rights, a cloud will always remain over the validity of their detention

Heaven forbid that a cloud hang over the validity of our actions. Much better that we let the courts free them so they may release clouds nuclear, biological or chemical weapons over our cities. We must take the moral high ground.

[Buckhead]

Your post 1 is excellent. The WTC prosecution was the ne plus ultra of criminal prosecutions of terrorist acts. But it failed to reach or incapacitate KSM, who went on to plan and execute 9/11. Ergo, the criminal justice model for this problem is a complete and total failure of intergalactic proportions.

[Lancey Howard]

Yeah, right. Let’s give these detainees lawyers and access to the courts so some liberal scumbag judge can release back them into the wild because our soldiers and Marines negelected to read them their rights in some arcane Muslim dialect. Sure, great idea....