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Military Trials for 9/11 Terror Suspects Backed by Big Majority
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyA substantial majority of voters oppose the Obama administration's insistence on trying 9/11 terror suspects in civilian rather than military courts and an even higher percentage believe that the man trained by al-Qaeda to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day should be charged as an enemy combatant rather than being a defendant in a criminal court, according to a Quinnipiac University poll conducted Feb. 2-8. Fifty-nine percent say that the Sept. 11 suspects should be tried in military courts while 35 percent agree with the decision to try them in civilian courts, with 6 percent ...
Top Obama Aide Defends Use of Criminal Trial for Would-Be Plane Bomber
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyPresident Obama's top counterterrorism adviser today defended the administration's decision to put the Nigerian man who tried to bomb a Detroit-bomb airplane on trial in a criminal court rather than charge charge him as an enemy combatant given his ties to an al Qaeda group based in Yemen. ...
McCain Slams SCOTUS over Gitmo Ruling
By Dave - Politics DailyJohn McCain, today: The United States Supreme Court yesterday rendered a decision which I think is one of the worst decisions in the history of this country. Sen. Graham and Sen. Lieberman and I had worked very hard to make sure that we didn't torture any prisoners, that we didn't mistreat them, that we abided by the Geneva Conventions, which applies to all prisoners. But we also made it perfectly clear, and I won't go through all the legislation we passed, and the prohibition against torture, but we made it very clear that these are enemy combatants, these are people who are not citizens, ...
Reactions to the Supreme Court and Gitmo
By Dave - Politics DailyHugh Hewitt on the Supreme Court Gitmo case today. What this means, of course, is more litigation, more delays, and more confusion. Only one thing is certain: Our terrorist enemies still at large must be amazed, amused and encouraged by the continued insistence by legal elites that they be treated like petty American criminals rather than fanatical killers eager for martyrdom. It is as though the five justices and their clerks are wholly ignorant of the rising stack of books and flood of articles detailing the nature of the enemy and their creed of death. My first thought is that since a ...
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