Word: namo
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...Closing Down the Dark Side," Mark Kukis says there is a problem with how the suspected detainees at a shutdown Guantánamo would be prosecuted if brought to the U.S. [Dec. 8]. If this were done, he says, "avowed terrorists" might walk away "on a technicality." In light of recent Supreme Court decisions making the writ of habeas corpus available to Guantánamo detainees, this is precisely how those detainees are to be tried, regardless of venue. To downsize a constitutional right into a technicality in the field of American jurisprudence is equivalent to considering gravity a technicality...
...Republicans is voting against most people's self-interest. If you throw in the death of Americans and Iraqis due to incompetence and illegal wars there is nothing left to love in the Republican Party. If you add the illegal wiretaps and jailing of people illegally in Guantánamo, the picture is complete. Guy Falcone, Redwood City, Calif...
...certain kind of courtroom drama, there comes a point at which the guilty party confesses in open court. Few people would have expected a moment like that to emerge from any trial of the 9/11 suspects at Guantánamo--terrorists aren't prone to making their captors' tasks easier. But on Dec. 8, in a hushed and heavily guarded courtroom, alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four of his co-defendants abruptly offered to confess to coordinating the attacks--in effect, pleading guilty to the murder of 3,000 people. With family members of some of the 9/11 victims...
Critics of Guantánamo say that after years of alleged torture and abuse, detainees aren't competent to plead guilty, as the five men are trying to do. Disputes over issues like that make it unlikely the proceedings will wrap up before the Inauguration on Jan. 20--which will complicate Obama's task of closing the facility and ending an embarrassing chapter in the war on terrorism. In any event, the military judge, Army Colonel Stephen R. Henley, refused to accept the guilty pleas. He said he needed first to resolve the question of whether a plea--instead...
...Closing Down The Dark Side," Mark Kukis says there is a problem with how the suspected detainees at a shutdown Guantánamo would be prosecuted if brought to the U.S. [Dec. 8]. If this were done, he says, "avowed terrorists" might walk away "on a technicality." In light of recent Supreme Court decisions making the writ of habeas corpus available to Guantánamo detainees, this is precisely how those detainees are to be tried, regardless of venue. To downsize a constitutional right into a technicality in the field of American jurisprudence is equivalent to considering gravity a technicality...