Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents have enough evidence against five men accused in the Benghazi attack to seize them by military force as suspected terrorists, the Associated Press reports. But the AP reported that the agents don’t have enough evidence to charge the men in a civilian court, which is the Obama administration’s preference. In…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI installed eavesdropping equipment in prison cells and visiting rooms at Guantanamo Bay, the military police commander of the prison said Wednesday, the Los Angeles Times reports. The testimony by Army Col. John Vincent Bogdan incensed defense attorneys for five suspected Sept. 11 plotters because it appears the confidential meetings with…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — In an about face — that appeared over time to be more and more likely of a possibility — the Obama administration has decided to prosecute self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad in a military commission at Guantanamo Bay instead of a civilian court in New York, CBS…
By Michael Gerson The Washington Post The closing of the Guantanamo Bay prison and civilian trials for terrorists were more than policy changes proposed by Barack Obama as a presidential candidate. They were presented as a return to constitutional government – a dividing line from an uncivilized past. The indefinite detention of terrorists, according to…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — U.S. District Judge Joyce Lamberth in Washington, not exactly a shy person, isn’t buying into the critics’ claims that the Guantanamo inmates are any more dangerous than some street gangs that have gone on trial in civilian courts. “The gangs are more murderous, I think, than some of these…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The Justice Department may end up not only holding trials for Guantanamo prisoners in a Manhattan court, but also in Brooklyn and eventually D.C. and Alexandria, according to a report in the New York Times. The Times reported that authorities were close to deciding whether to hold trial for…
The testimony only helps create more questions than answers to this controversial topic. By DEVLIN BARRETT Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON – FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress on Wednesday that bringing Guantanamo Bay detainees to the United States could pose a number of risks, even if they were kept in maximum-security prisons. Responding to FBI…
