Yeah, sure, Janet, you plump, demented, sapphic, porcine.
Posted on 04/05/2008 6:11:27 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
ACLU wants to help defend alleged Sept. 11 mastermind
By Carol Rosenberg
McClatchy Newspapers
The American Civil Liberties Union, which for years has scorned Pentagon military commissions as "kangaroo courts," announced Friday it will try to provide top civilian defense attorneys for alleged terrorists facing trial at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba -- with special emphasis on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Former Attorney General Janet Reno is among top lawyers who have endorsed the $8.5 million effort, which will help coordinate and defray the attorneys' expenses.
ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero said a major thrust will be to defend Mohammed, who military officials say has confessed to masterminding the Sept. 11 attacks and other terrorist acts, including the beheading in Pakistan of Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl.
The ACLU chose to focus on his defense, Romero said, because he appears to be "the government's top priority in the prosecution. And whether or not they are able to convict Khalid Sheikh Mohammed under these rules may well determine the fate of the almost 300 other men who are detained at Guantánamo."
Mohammed was held in secret CIA custody until September 2006, and the CIA has admitted subjecting him to waterboarding while he was being questioned. Waterboarding simulates drowning and is considered torture by many human-rights advocates.
Mohammed's case "is likely to raise the most significant issues of torture, hearsay evidence and access to counsel," Romero said.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
I always knew the ACLU was the enemy..... How could any American lawyer in his right mind defend someone like this? Come to think of it, we are at war - did we give any of our enemies lawyers and a court hearing in WW2?
Unbelievable and reading this was a crappy way to start the weekend.......
And another thing... who is paying the %8.5 mil? The taxpayer? I want a refund....
“I don’t know who hates us the most - the terrorist or the ACLU...”
Apparantly, it is the ACLU.
$8.5 million (so far) for defense of the 9-11 mastermind? This may set a record in American juriprudence for amount spent in defense.
Who the hell precisely is donating this money?
They are getting a tax deduction for a donation to a not for profit.
We need to start calling this what it is TREASON.
That kid-burning bulldagger Reno belongs in Git’mo with the rest of the traitors and terrorists.
Reno = the gay golem.
Former Attorney General Janet Reno is among top lawyers who have endorsed the $8.5 million effort, which will help coordinate and defray the attorneys' expenses.
That Bull-Dyke 'beach' needs to be waterboarded and sent to GITMO.
I agree with your sentiment but you need a better analogy. You might want to read up on the Nuremberg trials.
Janet Reno? Now, there was a real piece of work.
-Traveler
That buys a lot of bullcrap and reasonable doubt from silver tongue law twisters hungry for accolades.
The ACLU are terrorists...they’re legal terrorists who work on behalf of America’s enemies. In their entire history, it has never been otherwise.
Janet Reno will probably burn in Hell for all of the evil deeds she has been a part of.
This factoid needs to be saved and brought out in the fall if Hillary manages to snatch the democrat nomination from Obama.
It speaks to the horrible judgment of the Clintons and is ample evidence that a President Hillary would infest her White House with terrorist sympathizers and enablers.
I think you do...we all do.
Isn’t it funny how the same rotten names keep bubbling up?
Is this ALL that our nation has to offer as Attorney General, Governor of Florida, etc etc.?
GET OFFA THE F-ing STAGE!!!
If this was WWII, Romero and his entire staff would be in prison, according to FDR’s executive order of 1942.
I don’t have a problem with Mohamed being defended by someone, but Reno was once the U.S.’s “top lawyer”. It shows you the type of people who make up the Dem party.
A lot of money or a high profile case could tilt the justice scale especially with a sympathetic judge ruling on evidence or argument (Both for the prosecution or defense, civil or criminal).
Socialists ARE terrorists. They’ve been bomb throwers in America ever since the Russian Revolution.
The sheeple keep getting numbed to the fact that this lot has wanted to take this country down for the better part of a century. And they almost got stopped in the 1950s (after 30 years of congressional investigations) when they claimed “harassment” for being seditious treasonous louts supporting leaders who butchered 10s of millions (Mao, Stalin, et al).
And this was AFTER they stole the secrets they shared with the USSR for the atomic bomb (leading to 40+ years of nuclear missile buildup).
Reno did not defend the US or the rights of the US citizen. She defended Bill Clinton and his big government.
You just cannot get rid of those people. Sorta like stink on chit.
there is something wrong with their brain function
Nuremberg took place after the enemies were successfully defeated and defanged.
The trials of Captain Preston and the soldiers under his command took place well before Lexington & Concord. Which raises the additional point that they weren't enemy combatants at all but the lawfully constituted authority which was accused of overstepping its bounds -- the rough equivalent of a civil rights prosecution against police brutality.
But in any case, it's quite a different proposition to start giving enemy combatants all the civil rights of citizens while they're still trying to kill you.
I understand that valuable information was obtained by holding these goblins. Otherwise it would have been better just to put them up against the wall and shoot them on the battlefield.
Janet Reno must have a thing about Cuba. Maybe she just wants to visit Elian.
The deceitful man-made piousness of “acting” humane and self-righteous by twisting logic plus reason (To pump up your idiotic attempt to be pious) to those who would kill you in an instant is suicide.
Unfortunately we have a contest among lawyers and government bureaucrats on who can look the most pious of them all towards our enemies who want our children destroyed.
Why do the liberals want to send Khalid Sheikh Mohammed free?
They really *do* hate America.
I thought Reno was in a nursing home, and had Alzheimers?
And United States Marines can apparently go to hell.
Janet Reno believes that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is less of a threat to Americans than David Koresh. Those angry gun toting Christians need to be bulldozed don’t you know. Them and their children should be gassed on the spot. < /s >
In here in Washington Democrat Bagdad Jim McDermott is praying for an acquittal for Khalid. Did I say praying? Ooops he can't possibly believe in God, I mean he is hoping for an acquittal.
You are making the same error in judgment the media made. Koresh and him coolaid drinking followers were not Christian. But still you are right on the point that even a crazy cult did not deserve the horrible ending it got from the hands of Reno, who shed no tears over the incinerated bodies of young children.
The Communist Party!
Ping.
Exactly, hey ACLU - F U, is that clear enough?
Birds of a feather.......
Yeah, sure, Janet, you plump, demented, sapphic, porcine.
This analogy to the Bston Massacre is NOT apt, if you want an early American analogy you need to look to the US Navy’’s dealing with Berbery pirates.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1192205/posts
Koresh was a cultist and had superceded Jesus in his mind no doubt. But if he’d been rambling on and on about the cave drawings of primative man in France his rantings couldn’t have been used to taint all members of one faith (Christianity).
Just as the entire antiabortion movement is tainted by a handful of post hour clinic bombings but the overwhelming number of daylight attacks by radical muslims are not supposed to reflect on Islam.
They were not from a foreign land killing our people for their religion.
They deserved legal protection. - your analogy is incorrect.
Parkinson’s.
She is, unfortunately, still out and about.
Even though we booted her azz right out of Florida politics.
With one vital difference. The defendants in the Nuremberg trials were being tried on charges for crimes that did not exist prior to the trial itself (genocide, etc.).
The Guantanamo defendants are being tried under established military law, as informed by the Geneva Accords.
What a bunch of putzes! Hey someone should ask Hillary and Barak if they support Janet Reno's efforts!!!
I knew it was some sort of brain disease, and thanks. I guess she has money for private home care...your tax dollars at work?
You are correct - need not “freep” before coffee :)
You are.
Courtesy of your government's largess with our tax moneys.
who is paying the %8.5 mil? The taxpayer? I want a refund....
ME TOO!!!!!!!
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