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"The criminal justice system has proven to be one of the most effective weapons available to our government for both incapacitating terrorists and collecting intelligence from them. Removing this highly effective weapon from our arsenal would be as foolish as taking our military and intelligence options off the table against...
The head of the parliamentary legal affairs committee, Siegfried Kauder, a member of Merkel's Christian Democratic Union Party, urged her to do the latter, saying the data may not even be admissible in court because of the manner in which it was obtained. Other officials and experts warned that...
Switzerland was vehemently opposed to the deal. "Here we have a new form of bank robbery," Swiss lawmaker Pirmin Bischof said in an interview with Germany's Deutschlandfunk radio on Tuesday. "Before, you had to go to the bank and get hold of the money with a weapon. Today you...
Public polls confirm that Americans largely oppose Democrats on the issue. A Bloomberg poll in early December found that 21% favored trying Gitmo prisoners in criminal court, while 57% wanted them tried in military tribunals. In a late-November USA Today/Gallup poll, 42% favored holding the KSM trial in New...
That means the decision on whether to stick with civilian trials may rest with Obama and his political advisers. Holder is determined to try the 9/11 conspirators in criminal courts, which Justice officials say have a proven track record of getting convictions and delivering speedy justice. By contrast, Justice officials...