White House weighs options for Sept. 11 trial

[PMMurray]

All that's fine. The only observation that I would make is that a lot of estimates of Obama slant among journalists have centered on those journalists who cover politics. My journalistic background has never involved political reporting at any level of government.

[AbnJack]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34346.html

The Padilla brief endorsed by Holder stated, among other things, that using the ordinary judicial system to deal with a citizen seized as an enemy combatant “might impede the investigation of a terrorist offense in some circumstances. It is conceivable that, in some hypothetical situation … the government might be unable to detain a dangerous terrorist or to interrogate him or her effectively. But this is an inherent consequence of the limitation of Executive power.”

Holder knows civilian court won't work, his current opinion is a political one, not the same legal opinion he had before. He changed his opinion after finding a note in Obamas pocket after taking up residency there. So like everything else, why isn't there an investigation into undue political influence by the Pres like there was after allegations that Bush involved himself in the firing of fed prosecutors?

btw...this was from one of his briefs that were hidden during confirmation

[AbnJack]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100414/...RlcnNheXN1cw--

Holder says US still hopes to take bin Laden alive
.....snip from middle of article

During the earlier hearing, questions about what legal rights might be granted to suspected terrorists led Holder to tell lawmakers the chances of capturing the al-Qaida leader alive were very slim and "we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden."

On Wednesday Holder again tried to deflect hypothetical questions about what would happen were bin Laden taken alive.

The committee's senior Republican, Jeff Sessions of Alabama, insisted the U.S. needs a policy on how to handle bin Laden, particularly whether he should be read his Miranda rights — including the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney.

Holder said there would be no need to read bin Laden his rights if captured, because the warning is only legally required to allow the use of incriminating statements made by suspects after they are caught. In bin Laden's case, Holder said, there is a wealth of incriminating evidence making further statements unnecessary to convict him.

"We have sufficient information, statements from bin Laden, so that there is no reason to Mirandize him at all, and you can still bring his case," Holder said.

[z0phi3l]

That moron would give Bin Laden fucking rights as a citizen, and a free defense attorney

Lets hope that IF that day comes our trigger pullers pull that trigger and bring home the corpse