Posted on 03/24/2010 1:27:25 PM PDT by Sergeant Tim
It is shocking and true: A federal judge has ordered the release of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, one of the top recruiters for the 9/11 attacks - a man once deemed the highest-value detainee at Guantanamo Bay.
With but a two-sentence ruling, Washington Federal Judge James Robertson has taken the dangerous folly of granting enemy combatants entree into civilian courts to its outrageous, indecent limit. Who's next, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed?
So that there is no mistake: Robertson's determination that a terrorist with the blood of 3,000 on his hands deserves life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is not the work of President Obama. It is the work of a Supreme Court that gave Guantanamo detainees the right to challenge their confinement before federal judges.
That said, Slahi is one of several hundred detainees who have remained in legal limbo, affording the courts the opportunity to run haywire, while the Obama administration had dithered and zigged and zagged over whether to try them in civilian courts or before military tribunals - or whether to simply hold them indefinitely.
Slahi might well have been a fit candidate for the hole, he possibly being a man whose guilt was certain but unprovable beyond a reasonable doubt thanks to squeamishness over evidence acquired under rough treatment. No doubt he was squeezed appropriately hard after 9/11, and for that the United States is safer.
And for that, apparently, Robertson believes Slahi deserves a pass. He promises to release the basis for his decision after it is declassified by the intelligence community.
That's not good enough. What was the rush to release? The judge could have waited, should have waited, for the country to understand why this had to happen before exercising his legal authority. Indeed, the Obama administration is considering whether to appeal the ruling...
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
This is what happens when the Civil Justice System gets involved in a War.
Ping!
I knew it.
Just wait until the current crop of a****** that Obama is growing start deciding cases...
lock the judge up
Personally, I’m all for his release... into a room filled with relatives of those who died 9/11/01 with a good supply of baseball bats.
There is every reason to believe some incredibly dangerous people will have counsel capable of bewildering a gaggle of people too stupid to get off jury duty , that the evil government has not proved the case beyond a reasonable doubt .
I do not need a bat.
or help
Is the judge releasing him into his neighborhood? Methinks NOT. Fool.
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