U.S.: Suspected Terrorist Should Not Be Allowed to Reveal Interrogation Tactics
The government has taken the position that a detainee should not have access to a civilian lawyer because he may release interrogation techniques to his lawyer and enable terrorists to reveal the information to other terrorists.
I have mixed feelings. This contradicts the Military Commission Act but the government says that this is a national security issue and the civilian courts no longer have jurisdiction.
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If we are to confuse acts of war with criminal law, is the next step to confuse criminal law with civil law and require rape victims to seek remedy through the civil courts?
Hey, then no one goes to jail.....the ACLU would be proud!!!
the torture has nothing to do with the crime that they think he committed.
he should get an attorney, of course.
and i think the government is afraid that the american people will find out what the government has been doing in their name.
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the Bush Administration, They have the information classified and say it is a security
issue.
They never did.
The civilian courts do not have jurisdiction here
You are correct ma'am.
he should get an attorney, of course
Sure, a MILITARY attorney, in a MILITARY court. Like I said troub troub, you can call yourself a republican all you please, that doesn't make you one in practice.
what is the government afraid of, here? that they tortured him?
They aren't afraid of anything, they simply understand a terrorist isn't a criminal, and isn't afforded the same civil liberties American citizens are afforded.
i think the government is afraid that the american people will find out what the government has been doing in their name.
Like I said, not a republican, and certainly NOT a conservative. You spew more liberal BS than you care to admit.
A terrorist can be considered to be an illegal combatant. This is a VERY grey area in law, but certainly a claim that they are entitled to a civilian attorney won't stand. For that matter, a POW is also not entitled to an attorney and their status is much clearer- -it is set out in the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War (Geneva Convention IV, I believe).