Administration halts prosecution of alleged USS Cole bomber

[Sludge]

I guess we are eventually just gonna let these pieces of sh|t go...   

Here is the link...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/26/AR2010082606353.html?hpid=moreheadlines&sid=ST2010082700364

In a filing this week in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the Justice Department said that "no charges are either pending or contemplated with respect to al-Nashiri in the near future."

The statement, tucked into a motion to dismiss a petition by Nashiri's attorneys, suggests that the prospect of further military trials for detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has all but ground to a halt, much as the administration's plan to try the accused plotters of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in federal court has stalled.

[SANDMAN5]

Maybe we should send him a Welfare check every month....and free
health care?

[Brad]

quote from the story

"We were planning to be involved in a fishing project"

yeah...yeah....thats what happened.

I have said it before and I will say it again....NOTHING my government does surprises me anymore!!

Throw them all out come November!!

[Chrisj CMA]

quote from the story

"We were planning to be involved in a fishing project"

yeah...yeah....thats what happened.

I have said it before and I will say it again....NOTHING my government does surprises me anymore!!

Throw them all out come November!!

Right after we impeach Obama!

[Scanner]

The key phrase there is "Military Trials". 

The Bush administration prosecuted, after 9-11, 828 people on terrorism charges in civilian courts. Trials are still pending against 235 of those folks. That leaves 593 resolved indictments, of which 523 were convicted of some crime, for a conviction rate of 88%.

With regard to military tribunals, the Bush administration initiated 20 such cases. So far just three convictions have been won. The highest-profile is the conviction of Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's driver. The Hamdan legal saga doesn't exactly suggest that military tribunals provide swifter, surer or tougher justice. In the end, he was convicted but sentenced -- not by a bunch of New York City Democrats, but by a military jury -- to five and half years.

Then, the tribunal judge, a US Navy captain, gave Hamdan credit for time served, which was five years. So he served six months after conviction. Today he's back in -- guess where? -- Yemen.

The main difficulty in all these prosecutions is that the Bush admin endorsed torture as an interrogation method. Any information obtained through torture will probably be inadmissible.