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Consideration of National Security Courts Lands Obama in a Legal Minefield

Started by washingtonindependent · 7 months ago

Mondayâs news that President-elect Barack Obama and his advisers are planning to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay and prosecute some of the prisoners detained there in special national-security courts has prompted a retreat by the Obama team and swift responses by advocates on all sides.%0 ... Continue reading »

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Jhalsell
7 months ago

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Dan
7 months ago

What court will the administration members who authorized and carried out the torture be tried in? Oh, wait, they are allowed to do whatever they want because of, um, manifest destiny? Ordainment? We citizens not calling out to congress that this is what we want; that any other country who did this would be painted as a haven for terror.

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Hawaiianstyle
7 months ago

A special court system? Yeah. We could call it the STAR CHAMBER system.

We have a court system for criminals lets use it. Every time you change the system to accommodate another class of CRIMINALITY you lose some of the safeguards. Why is that? Are your actions saying, "...but we need to be able to convict them?"

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Doug Valentine
6 months ago

how nat sec courts originiated

http://www.pegc.us/archive/Journals/JVB_37_Case...
Doug Valentine
136 Captain Road
Longmeadow MA 0110

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