Posted on 04/30/2007 4:57:57 PM PDT by 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 . . .
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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.
BS...not directed at what you said.
“Ex-prosecutors” = lawyers looking for a payday.
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’.
You figure that's what the AP mysteriously missed in writing this article?
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“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.”
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.
Thta’s 4 out of 39. BFD. I am sure the rest are Clintonista/Soros types.
List.. please.
Professor Terguson: Good answer. Good answer. I like the way you think. I’m gonna be watching you.
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?
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.
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.
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....
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