Tuesday, September 14, 2010
In 2009 the Justice Department announced that 9/11 plotter Khalid Shaikh Mohammed would be tried in New York City, setting off a firestorm of protests. Besides the cost and safety concerns, at issue are whether terrorists should be tried in criminal court or whether national security requires the use of military commissions. Likewise, issues like the closing of Guantanamo, the reading of Miranda rights, and enhanced interrogation all center on the same question: How should the U.S. treat captured alleged terrorists? In a war with no foreseeable end, whose actors are neither criminals nor soldiers; can we keep America safe and still bring terrorists to justice.
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Michael Hayden
Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
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Marc Thiessen
Chief Speechwriter to President George W. Bush
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Stephen Jones
Managing Partner of the Law Firm of Jones, Otjen, and Davis.
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David Frakt
Professor at Barry University’s Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law
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John Donvan
Author and correspondent for ABC News.
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Michael Hayden
Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
previously served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the country’s first principal deputy director of National Intelligence, and as director of the National Security Agency and chief of the Central Security Service.
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Marc Thiessen
Chief Speechwriter to President George W. Bush
served as chief speechwriter to President George W. Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and before that as a senior aide to Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms.
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David Frakt
rofessor at Barry University’s Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law
is a professor at Barry University’s Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law and a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserve JAG Corps.
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Stephen Jones
Managing Partner of the Law Firm of Jones, Otjen, and Davis
is managing partner of the law firm of Jones, Otjen, and Davis. In May 1995, he was appointed by the U.S. District Court to serve as the principal defense counsel for Timothy McVeigh.
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- Articles & Publications: Thiessen, Marc
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- Articles & Publications: Jones, Stephen
- Articles & Publications: Frakt, David
- Articles & Publications: Hayden, Michael
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Thursday, 26 July 2012 04:57 posted by Julian The boost in the presidents ranitgs will be short lived. He will continue to show his true colors as the campain season heats up and the American people showed in November they are tired of the Change this president has in mind. By the way I do not find it suprising that the Vice Chairman of the Pasco GOP would have a partisan viewpoint.Perhaps the death of Bin Laden will cause those that wish us harm to speed up a timetable to attack in an effort to avenge his death, lets hope this causes them to make mistakes that allow our agencys to foil their plans. Bin Ladens death lost some of the impact it might have had due to the time it took to find him.I am grateful to the men who undertook the mission. They deserve the thanks of all of us.
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