Tuesday, October 05, 2010

Civilian Trials Beat Military Commissions

Ben Smith wrote at Politico Pete King on Shahzad: 'A bit of luck involved' "The swift conviction and life sentence for the attempted Times Square bomber Faisal Shazad looks, on its face, like a triumph for the civilian legal system's ability to try terrorists. Shahzad was arrested, read his rights, tried, convicted, and sentenced, while other terror suspects languish in the troubled military commission system. "

He goes on to talk with skeptic Rep Peter King but of course this was an easy case and because of torture, the remaining Guantanamo cases aren't.

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