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...following: a remarkably successful two-term mayor (Rudy Giuliani), a business leader as well as Governor (Mitt Romney), a four-term Senator and war hero (McCain), an effective two-term Governor (Mike Huckabee) or a Senator with as much experience as Clinton and who was a star prosecutor and has an appealing personal story (Fred Thompson...
...Furthermore, over 86 percent of the detainees at Guantanamo were taken by Northern Alliance and Pakistani forces at a time when the U.S. military was paying large rewards for the capture of suspected enemies. Unless we want foreign bounty hunters to serve as prosecutor, judge, and jury, legitimate judicial oversight is needed...
Uribe said he confronted Velasquez with the information in a phone call in which the judge denied he had ever mentioned the President in his meeting with Tasmania. Nonetheless Uribe felt the need to publicly demand an investigation by the prosecutor's office into the paramilitary's allegations. The Supreme Court backed its investigator and accused Uribe of obstructing justice...
...Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has said, “Justice in Darfur must be on the agenda, at the top of the agenda. There can be no political solution, no security solution, no humanitarian solution as long as alleged war criminals remain free in the Sudan.” But when Moreno-Ocampo advised that any peace talks needed to broach the subject of accountability, he was met with silence from the international community...
Nevertheless, Joseph Daly, a Hamline Law School professor who has tried cases in front of Porter as a Hennepin County prosecutor and sometimes invites the judge to speak for his litigation classes, says that the tough going for the defense may not be indicative of what Porter really thinks of the case. Daly says that Porter is the kind of judge who "might say this case was so weak from the beginning, he might let it go to trial." The judge is expected to decide on the merits of going forward by next week...