FORMER DOJ OFFICIALS CHALLENGE FREDO

Terror trial policy challenged
Eight former attorneys general file court papers against Bush decision
the Associated Press
Tucson, Arizona Published: 11.21.2006

Former Attorney General Janet Reno and seven other former Justice Department officials filed court papers Monday arguing that the Bush administration is setting a dangerous precedent by trying a suspected terrorist outside the court system.

"The government is essentially asserting the right to hold putative enemy combatants arrested in the United States indefinitely whenever it decides not to prosecute those people criminally — perhaps because it would be too difficult to obtain a conviction, perhaps because a motion to suppress evidence would raise embarrassing facts about the government's conduct, or perhaps for other reasons," the former Justice Department officials said.

Some of the eight attorneys named in the document are now in private practice and represent detainees at the military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Most served under President Clinton, though the list includes former U.S. Attorneys W. Thomas Dillard and Anton R. Valukas, who served under President Ronald Reagan.


I haven't heard what the radio gasbags have said about this, but I'm sure they won't mention that former Raygun officials are part of the group. In their tiny world, only Democrats, liberals and terrorists support basic human rights.