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| More anti-Trump nonsense by the media |
| 2017-07-22 |
| [American Thinker] A suspect [Ali Charaf Damache] in the plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the prophet Mohammed has been extradited from Spain to be tried in US federal court. More anti-Trump nonsense by the media on this issue. It would have been more trouble to halt extradition of the suspect to federal court and petition the Spanish government to transfer Damache to Guantanamo - with no guarantee Madrid would acquiesce. Also, Damache is a minor player in AQ and it is likely that most of the evidence against him is not classified. One of the major reasons to try terrorism suspects at Guantanamo is that the highly classified evidence gathered against the suspects would put intelligence sources and methods at risk if the trial took place in a civilian court. The argument that judges and prosecutors would be able to keep that intel secret is unconvincing. There is also the possibility that terrorists would look to attack venues where suspects were being tried. Even Democrats were extremely reluctant to support civilian trials for terrorists in American cities given the threat. The Trump administration bowed to logic in this case, not the Obama administration policy of bringing terrorists to the US for trial. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |