Obama gets his first terrorist acquittal in civilian court

quelle flustercluck.

countdown to tribunals chez Gitmo, and Holder's departure in 3-2-1...

who could ever have predicted such an outcome?

Spoiler

oh, wait...

 

Interesting you didn't see fit to quote this part of the story:

And Fox being Fox, they saw fit to leave out a part of the story as well. Here's the NYTimes:

Seems like the witness would have had a profound effect on the trial, but since the guy provided the info under torture, it was rightly not admissible.

So, in reality, this is W's acquittal, not Obama's... though if he keeps up the current policy, we may unfortunately see some in the future.

 

democracy suck, if you don't like it, move to CHINA.

love it or leave it baby!

 

tortured? how? proof?

 

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One bad turn deserves another.

 

Glad we hold ourselves to such a high standard to go through due process and serve proper justice no matter the circumstances. Score one for American ideals and civilized society.

 

Apparently his lawyers could tell you.

Way to go Bush.

Ya dun goofed, now consequences will never be the same.

 

Just silly.

 

It's ashame that Bush's torture policy hurt the case.

 

The judge himself recognized the potential damage of excluding the witness when he said in his ruling that Mr. Ghailani’s status of “enemy combatant” probably would permit his detention as something akin “to a prisoner of war until hostilities between the United States and Al Qaeda and the Taliban end, even if he were found not guilty.”

Sounds good to me.

 

so in spite of the Bush Administration's illegal torture, the guy is still doing 20 to life.

The only shame is that the illegal torturers won't be in the cell next door.

 

teh this

 

It was answered a United States court of law.

America, love it or leave it!

 

None of us were in the courtroom, dingleberry.

Sucks that your President let this guy off the hook.

 

It’s pathetic that some people here are more concerned with making the president look bad as apposed to following the laws of our country.

 

Agreed . there are laws in place that need to be fellowed.