An important new report (.pdf) was released today by Human Rights First regarding the overwhelming success of the U.S. Government in obtaining convictions in federal court against accused Terrorists. The Report squarely contradicts the central claim of the Obama administration as to why preventive detention is needed: namely, that certain Terrorist suspects who are “too dangerous to release” — whether those already at Guantanamo or those we might detain in the future — cannot be tried in federal courts. This new data-intensive analysis — written by two independent former federal prosecutors and current partners with Akin, Gump: Richard B. Zabel and James J. Benjamin, Jr. — documents that “federal courts are continuing to build on their proven track records of serving as an effective and fair tool for incapacitating terrorists.
Greenwald, pointing out what is a fact so clear in the record that it astounds as ever, though it probably should not, that no one within the mainstream discussion will stand up and fight for this position
07/27/09 at 9:46pm
