Attorney General Eric Holder yesterday celebrated an easy victory when Zazi plead guilty in civilian court. Holder now thinks this gives him leave to prosecute all of the other terrorist cases on the mainland in civilian courts.
However, his own words do him in. He says that he wants to use "every means possible" to secure convictions - every means except the one surefire way to get a conviction, and that is the military tribunal. I think Holder is more interested in putting on a show than in getting results.
On a related point, the Administration and others are criticizing Congress (Lindsay Graham is introducing a bill today to deny funding for moving Gitmo detainees to the US and holding trials here) and saying that these decisions should be left to the professioanls and not the politicians.
As I read the Constitution. Congress is right, and it's about time they stood for something in the Constitution instead of caving or acquiesing to the President.
In Article I, Section 8 - the part where the 17 enumerated powers are given to the Congress - powers 10 and 11 are on point. Power 10 says "to define and punish Piracies and Felonies commited on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations" and 11 says "to declare War, grant Letters or Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water." Congress is totally within their purview on this and the Administration is clearly out-of-bounds.
Therefore, keep Gitmo open - this is not the President's call per the Constitution (which he should know as the Constitutional scholar that he is) - try all the terrorists with military tribunals, forget the purchase of Thomson, and stay the course.
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The A C L U will do everything in it's bag of tricks to make this into one big circus...
Steve
The right thing to do with the terrorists is to prosecute them in a military tribunal.
Good luck and success.
Lou Ludwig
The Zazi hearing is no benchmark of how a prosecution will go. They guy plea bargained for the max sentence and pleaded guilty. The legal opinion is they cut some deals with him to reduce his sentence if he cooperates with them.
Is that how they plan to deal with all terrorists? Cut deals?
Wallace,
I hear you loud and clear. :)
Steve
Paul,
That's why it has to stay out of US courts. :)
Steve
Lou,
Totally agree. Thanks. :)
Steve
Bonnie,
Holder needs to go and Congress needs to do their job. :)
Steve
In the meantime, there are 9 attorneys in the Chicago thug administration, who defended terrorists previously. Now they're going to prosecute them? This pretty well sums up this administration!
Jon,
What a circus. :)
Steve