Another day and another round of bad news for the gang that wanted to close GITMO and hold civilian trials.
Governing is different than campaigning.....isn't it?
Let's check the latest example of conducting a foreign policy for the purpose of being popular with The Nobel Prize Committee rather than protecting US voters from terrorists.
Let's review the latest.
On Wednesday, Judge Lewis Kaplan of the United States District Court in Manhattan, made life difficult when he excluded the testimony of the government’s central witness because the government interrogated Mr. Ghailani at a secret CIA overseas prison.
This is what happens when you bring these terrorists trials to civilian courts.
This is why the Clinton administration started rendition jails in the 1990's to hold on to terrorists indefinitely without trial. And this is why the Bush administration opened up GITMO.
At the end of the day, you have to try these people in military courts or just hold them indefinitely.
Military detention proceedings have different "evidence rules" and are not constrained by constitutional rights, such as the right to a jury trial or confront witnesses.
Finally, who said that these people are entitled to our rights anyway? Who started that nonsense?
Keep them at GITMO or at CIA secret jails. Do not bring these people into our civilian courts!
P.S. Let's see this editorial from The NY Daily News:
"There is abundantly conclusive proof that Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani participated in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people, including 12 Americans.
At least 5,000 were wounded.
He was indicted that same year while a fugitive. In 2004, the CIA caught up with Ghailani in Pakistan.
By then, he had gone on to train with Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, serve as Osama Bin Laden's bodyguard and meet some of the 9/11 hijackers.
These facts come courtesy of Ghailani's own mouth.
He revealed them under interrogation while in clandestine CIA custody before transfer to Guantanamo.
Therein lies the legal absurdity.
The CIA grilled Ghailani in the interest of national security - to prevent further terrorist attacks - and not as a run-of-the-mill criminal suspect with full U.S. constitutional rights."
