Bush allowed more than 800 terrorism indictments to be handed up by federal grand juries, resisting constitutional protections only for those he declared to be "unlawful enemy combatants." The current administration has granted such rights to six of the 241 detainees who were at Guantanamo Bay when Obama took office, and senior government lawyers have said there is next to no prospect of bringing more than 20 more to trial in any tribunal, civilian or military.
A study by New York University's Center on Law and Security found that New York prosecutors have convicted 94 percent of terrorism defendants since Sept. 11, 2001, and 100 percent in cases with domestic targets.
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They weren't in OJ's favor either. Correct me if I'm wrong but I think he got off.
Is Khalid Sheik Mohammed a nationally renowned football hero?
Do the people of New York distrust their local authorities the way African-Americans in LA mistrusted the Los Angeles police force?
What New Yorker did not share in the sense of loss from the destruction of the WTC and the killing of so many people there?
Which foreign terrorist has ever been acquitted in a trial held in New York?
CJP said...
Is Khalid Sheik Mohammed a nationally renowned football hero?
Can we say something a little more ridiculous?
CJP I don't think you understand the system. Guilty people go free all the time. If things are not done a specific way, guilty people go free. Our system would rather let guilty people off than put an innocent person in jail. I think that is a good thing. It sucks when the guilty go free but we at least try to protect the innocent from being jailed. Don't tell me you've never heard of a guilty person go free?
Did anyone ever read these guys their rights? Just sayin'....
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