Open Thread

legion- the Bush administration has been trying terrorists in civilian court. Holder didn’t begin the practice and in fact, the civilian courts have a better conviction rate than the military ones. The Bush administration claimed 319 convictions of terrorists won in civilian court trials.

From the UK Guardian:” The Bush administration — in which Liz Cheney’s papa held a fairly high position, you might recall — prosecuted, after 9-11, 828 people on terrorism charges in civilian courts. At the time of publication of this excellent report from the Center on Law and Security, NYU School of Law last year, trials were 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 inaugurated 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, rehearsed here, doesn’t exactly suggest that military tribunals provide swifter and surer and tougher justice. In the end, he was convicted all right, 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.”

Next time try facts. ALL the facts.

Thanks MM and bxgrl.

I just posted further evidence:

http://i56.tinypic.com/11smikz.jpg

Snappy — we would be representing the other PLUSAs, not rob, on the subpoena. But we could screen you off the case with a Chinese wall (and double our billings to dibs!).

Seriously, if no one has emailed Mr. B, I think I might.

“wtf? stop!”

Why would I stop? You show no empathy for others, why would I show empathy for you?

You wrote some cracked out post, like you always do, and now you want sympathy? BAH HA HA HA HA.

I HATE HOTMAIL!!!

It seems that no one is getting mails from me when I use my hotmail account. You may all reach me at the same email addy, but gmail instead.