We may eventually follow the legal firsts issued by the Canadian supreme court for handling "terror suspects" who have been held for years without trial. Lawyers there are trying their best to get past the blanket laws enacted and followed by the Bush administration, where lawyers representing some of these detainees "need special advocates appointed before they can even become special advocates" for their clients.
Admission given in court by special FBI agents were proven to be false or incomplete; in some cases, the original eveidence had been destroyed (sound familiar?) so there WAS no evidence.
The rule of law will prevail now hopefully, under this new administration, so we can begin unravelling the processes that helped Guantanmo to become the complicated mass of illegality it has become.
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- Anyone have any ideas on what to do with terror suspects
- Give them all quick trials. Shoot the guilty and release the rest. (n/t)
- What to do...
- re: Anyone have any ideas on what to do with terror suspects
- Try them as war criminals if that might stick, otherwise treat them as POWs in a US base - or send them home. (n/t)
- I was not being glib...what *are* the alternatives? (n/t)
- And I wasn't being flippant.
- I think you're simply asking the wrong people
- They've got nothing.
- Take TWO OLD 737's With American Airlines LOGOS still attached
- Can the US imprison all who hate the US? Do we turn domestic prisoners loose?
- Try them and hang them. (n/t)
- Easy, put a chip in and let them go. (n/t)
- Give them citizenship. Then let them join the military, and base them naer San Francisco, Chicago, D.C., and NYC. (n/t)
- Make 'em swim home. (n/t)