Mukasey: Congress has to act on detainees
Michael Mukasey argues that the habeas corpus requirements for
terrorist detainees has created a patchwork of inconsistent decisions
in the federal courts, which resulted in the order to release……

Ladies and gentlemen…The Attorney General of the United States, Michael Mukasey:
First, Congress must make clear that release from the Guantanamo Bay military base does not mean that a detainee is entitled to enter the United States. Where a cour…

Yes. POW’s have been indicted under civil and criminal law in the past…for actions and crimes committed AFTER their being placed in POW camps within the United States that were committed outside of the POW camp. An escapee, for example, commits arson with a resultant death of an occupant. This could be adjudicated under local criminal statues.

BUT…8 years into this thing…and we still have a preponderance of our “best” legal minds failing to determine what constitutes an American person, a prisoner of war, and a foreign bandit involved in hostilities toward US forces abroad.

After 20 January…then what? Pardon the lot? Let them enter the United States? Offer them citizenship?

Idiots!

At least get that part right, Ed, because if you can’t everything that you write is so much blather.
sdm on November 21, 2008 at 10:09 AM

So, by this rule sdm, if some one does not agree with your “prospective”, all other comments made by you are also blather?

Color me enlightened!

years that many innocents have been held without hearing or trial amidst a relatively small number of genuinely bad people.

sdm on November 21, 2008 at 10:09 AM

What a frikkin moron. They were captured in battle. Innocent has never been a question. They were enemy combatants. Just because they weren’t in uniform doesn’t make them less dangerous.

I guess in your opinion most of our enemies are friendly innocent misguided do-gooders. Only a very few are “bad”. Cry me a river dude.

And that “new” Congress you’re dreaming of? It will be the same one that has been screwing everything up for years. Oh there’s going to be a big change coming. You can bet on it. But I wouldn’t start counting your chickens yet. I’ve got a feeling a few million pissed off Chicken-Hawks are about to come home. To Roost.

sdm on November 21, 2008 at 10:09 AM

Thanks for the democrat talking blather, troll.

Michael Mukasey has made a bad situation much worse and now, as a former judge himself, blames the guys in the black bathrobes for the problems that mess has created. At least get that part right, Ed, because if you can’t everything that you write is so much blather.

sdm on November 21, 2008 at 10:09 AM

Easy there big fella. You can obviously have whatever opinion you want. But I don’t think Ed has ever shown a lack of substance, perspective, or patience. Wherever you come down on this there are no “innocents” involved here.

Michael Mukasey has made a bad situation much worse and now, as a former judge himself, blames the guys in the black bathrobes for the problems that mess has created. At least get that part right, Ed, because if you can’t everything that you write is so much blather.

Yes, Congress will have to help sort out the mess that your buddies made. There will be a new Congress in a very few weeks. That is the blink of an eye compared to the years that many innocents have been held without hearing or trial amidst a relatively small number of genuinely bad people.

A little perspective and patience is in order. Trying showing some of both of this issue.

Scalia seems to explain pretty clearly how ridiculous the position is that Kennedy ended up signing onto and that Mukasey is now struggling with.

Attorney General Mukasey suffered a collapse last night, but thankfully appears to be recovering well today. Be sure to read Andy McCarthy’s tribute to Mukasey at The Corner. Keep him in your prayers today.

Mukasey is a good man. I hope he is OK.