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| Federal Appeals Court: 'Dirty Bomb' Suspect Can Be Held |
| 2005-09-09 |
| RICHMOND, Va. A federal appeals court Friday sided with the Bush administration and reversed a judge's order that the government charge or free "dirty bomb" suspect Jose Padilla. wannna guess who appointed that judge? A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the president has the authority to detain a U.S. citizen closely associated with al Qaida. A federal judge in South Carolina had ruled in March that the government cannot hold Padilla indefinitely as an "enemy combatant," a designation President Bush gave him in 2002. The government views Padilla as a militant who planned attacks on the United States, including with a "dirty bomb" radiological device. |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #4 Gotta have something between release and hanging for treason. Seems like a compromise that all can 'live' with. |
| Posted by: Greter Cranter2502 2005-09-09 20:24 |
| #3 If you can make a case to a judge that he's dangerous enough to be held, I've got no problem with enemy combatant status. We're going to have cases where going the full criminal process/trial route would be somewhere between impractical and suicidal, but a hearing process with proper provisions about rules of evidence, secrecy and even presumption of innocence can be devised. I can't get behind the idea that DoD or Justice can make the declaration with no possible oversight from anybody. |
| Posted by: VAMark 2005-09-09 12:38 |
| #2 Lutting wrote the opinion. I've got to say I disagre with this without hearing more. The guy was an American citizen arrested in America. He's not like Johnnie Walker Lindh that they found on the battlefield in Afghanistan. Book him or let him walk. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-09-09 12:20 |
| #1 thank god it wasn't the 9th circuit in charge of this |
| Posted by: mhw 2005-09-09 12:02 |