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...native Californian is in the process of being transferred from U.S. military custody to that of the FBI. He has been advised of his Miranda rights, and has waived them, according to Ashcroft. Walker was officially charged in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia. He will also be tried there...
...done in the first World Trade Center trial. Ashcroft told TIME the military tribunals are at least partly about winning the public relations war. "The people know it would be a farce to capture somebody on their way to America to perpetrate a terrorist act, read them their Miranda rights, equip them at public expense with a flamboyant defense attorney, to bring them into a trial so that it becomes Osama TV," Ashcroft said...
Starting Five: Rada Pavichevich, F, 5-10, Sr. (10.0 ppg, 3.2 apg); Nyema Mitchell, F, 6-0, So. (6.7 ppg, 5.9 rpg); Miranda Craigwell, C, 6-2, So. (3.0 ppg, 2.5 rpg); Tanara Golston, G, 5-8, So. (2.7 ppg, 1.4 rpg); Stephanie Bruce...
...breaching the law during war is this: there is a nuclear bomb hidden in New York City. It is set to go off in 30 minutes. You have captured a terrorist who knows where it is. To find out, are you allowed to torture him, let alone suspend his Miranda rights...
...critics are particularly outraged that the President has authorized special military tribunals--like those set up by F.D.R. for Nazi saboteurs captured during World War II--to try the likes of bin Laden swiftly, secretly and without Miranda niceties. An apoplectic New York Times called the tribunals "a travesty of justice" and "a dangerous idea, made even worse by the fact that it is so superficially attractive...