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| Civilian court for 9/11 trial: UN |
| 2010-03-10 |
| GENEVA - United Nations human rights investigators called on the Obama administration on Tuesday to prosecute the accused Sept 11 masterminds in a civilian court, declaring that US military tribunals would not be fair. Usual nonsense from the usual, meddling suspects. The White House is reviewing options to bring the 9/11 detainees to justice and US officials said on Friday senior administration officials may recommend that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other suspects in the 2001 attacks face a military trial. 'I take the view that the Military Commissions Act is fundamentally flawed. It is very far from international fair trial standards and probably cannot be fixed,' said Martin Scheinin, UN special rapporteur on the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism. Not that we care what Marty thinks ... Mr Scheinin and other UN rapporteurs are independent investigators reporting to the UN Human Rights Council, whose 47 members include the United States. The Finnish international law professor, who has visited the US-run detention centre at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, also said it would be a mistake for the Obama administration to try to reform the Military Commissions Act, proclaimed under President George W. Bush, to try to provide for fair trials. 'To me the only safe option is to go to regular federal criminal courts which also have a much better track record in dealing with terrorism cases than the very unfortunate military commissions,'Mr Scheinin told a news briefing in Geneva. Military trials allow for evidence obtained by cruel or degrading treatment of detainees and have a 'backdoor' for using confessions obtained under torture by allowing hearsay, he said. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #11 Escape from U.N. starring: Snake Plisskin "Sad Story. Gotta Smoke?" |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2010-03-10 17:17 |
| #10 Somebody remind me why we keep funding the fecal waterslide called the UN? |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2010-03-10 17:03 |
| #9 We get a harrrrumph from Marty every so often. Probably just to remind everybody that he's still around and he can protect his phony baloney job. And keep getting his expense accounts approved... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-03-10 16:22 |
| #8 Tell the UN to go peddle their papers. |
| Posted by: mojo 2010-03-10 12:37 |
| #7 We should listen to the UN the day after they pay all their parking tickets. |
| Posted by: rwv 2010-03-10 12:28 |
| #6 Here is the deal for UN et al: you can handle the terrorists YOU CAPTURE any way you want. And we will take care of the ones we capture. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2010-03-10 08:27 |
| #5 Maybe it's just me, but I can't think of a better reason to hold the trial at Gitmo. I put the UN's opinions right up there with Alec Baldwin. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2010-03-10 06:00 |
| #4 yall covered everything that needed too be said in the first 3 comments. good job guys |
| Posted by: chris 2010-03-10 02:27 |
| #3 Burrrp (FOAD).... Excuse me. NUTS! |
| Posted by: newc 2010-03-10 01:04 |
| #2 So what did this flaming idiot had to say about the people who got their heads sawed off on video? Did they get a civilian trial? How about the Korean women who were kidnapped and probably raped? Did they get even a military tribunal? What does the grand UN special rapporteur have to sat about that? Nothing? Then he should sit down and shut-the-fuck-up. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-03-10 00:27 |
| #1 The UN has no jurisdiction in US domestic legal matters. If the UN has a problem with the Geneva Conventions, it should take their problem up with that body. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2010-03-10 00:12 |