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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAshcroft: I Would Try Boston Bombing Suspect As An Enemy Combatant
Well you're not Attorney General anymore, ASSHOLE!! Thank god.
FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL JOHN ASHCROFT: Yes, the answer to that question is yes.
Fortunately, there is a mountain of evidence that would support either a state charge or a federal charge in the Article III courts, being the traditional criminal jurisdiction courts. And the evidence is so substantial that it probably doesn't matter whether or not anything he would say now to interrogators would be used against him.
He's already the focus of so much hard evidence that the business about Miranda warnings is probably a tempest in a teapot here.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/04/22/ashcroft_i_would_try_boston_bombing_suspect_as_an_enemy_combatant.html
Another criminal from the Bush Administration speaks.
struggle4progress
(118,041 posts)of me singing my hit song Let the Eagle Soar!"
spanone
(135,636 posts)where's donnie rumsfeld???
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,308 posts)Shut up, Ashcroft. You are DONE, sir.
louis-t
(23,199 posts)instead of paying attention to the chatter before 9/11 even after being warned not to fly on commercial jets. Asshole.
xfundy
(5,105 posts)Too late.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)the suspect is charged in an article 3 constitutional court more than capable of sending this guy to a life in prison, or more likely, an appointment with the executioner.
No, the statements he made before being read his rights are not admissible by the prosecution to prove their case. or will they likely be necessary.
rustydog
(9,186 posts)following the constitution. That is why Bush, came up with enemy combatant, you could possibly, maybe win a case.
Summer Hathaway
(2,770 posts)as an enemy combatant - but that's another discussion.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)My effing ears!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)killbotfactory
(13,566 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)baldguy
(36,649 posts)The only difference is that the GOP wants to kill the Constitution more than they want to kill Americans.