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Home Front: WoT
It begins: Federal judge tosses Gitmo detainee's confession as coerced
2010-01-09
In a ruling this week, U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan also said the government failed to establish that 23 statements the detainee made to interrogators at Guantanamo Bay were untainted by the earlier coerced statements made while he was held under harsh conditions in Afghanistan.

However, the judge said statements he made during two military administrative hearings at the U.S. detention center in Cuba, where he was assisted by a personal representative, were reliable and sufficient to justify holding the detainee...
The logical inference from the record, said the judge, is that interrogators at Guantanamo Bay reviewed Al Madhwani's coerced confessions with him and asked him to make identical confessions...

Despite Hogan's concerns about the 23 statements, the judge relied on other evidence and three statements Al Madhwani made to a military tribunal and a review board to conclude that he trained, traveled and associated with members of al-Qaida, including high-level operatives. On those grounds, the judge ruled he is legally detained.
Via AllahPundit
Lawfare at work. He is still detained only because of the preponderance of evidence and his "uncoerced" statements.
Posted by:Deacon Blues

#7  Wait until everyone finds out that enemy POW's are protected by the Geneva Convention against trials in civilian courts.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2010-01-09 23:02  

#6  Capslock, fool
Posted by: Frank G   2010-01-09 22:54  

#5  Answer this:Oldspun Turn him back over to the tribunals NOW .LOL

THE TRIBUNALS ARE A JOKE IF YOU HAVENT NOTICED THAT PART.
WHY IS KSM & THE REST OF THE WALKING DEAD ALL STILL ALIVE?
IT HASNT WORKED FOR US THATS WHY HIS ASS IS BEING CHARGED IN NEW YORK I SAY HE WILL GET HIS FAIR TRAL.(DEATH)
WAIT, YOU CANT HONESTLY THINK NEW YORKERS LOVE THIS GUY DO YOU?(I HAVE FAITH NEW YORKERS WILL DO THE RIGHT THING)
"MABEY ITS YOU WHO DONT BELIVE IN AMERICA"
Posted by: Play4Keeps   2010-01-09 22:51  

#4  I hope that they also rule that KSM was unlawfully detained, needs to be set free, and they actually do just that. Only then will we understand how warped the left really is. STUPID MOVE BARRY and you are supposed to be a lawyer.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2010-01-09 20:02  

#3  Double jeopardy. He's free, if not now, later.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2010-01-09 14:01  

#2  OS, I agree. Obama and the AG are handling this like a bad episode of Perry Mason. I guess this is what happens when the lawyers take over.
Posted by: Yo Adrian   2010-01-09 13:30  

#1  Turn him back over to the tribunals NOW. Stop this farce. This is a war criminal and belongs in military courts at most, not the US Civilian courts. He has no rights as a us citizen and is not in our juridiciton when he committeded these war crimes. Summary trial and execution by a military authority is what is called for in the Geneva Convention for illegal combatants.

Follow the REAL law, not the crap our crooked AG is pushing. This now sets a precedent that any US military member captured can be tried under the civil laws of whatever entity gets hold of him, instead of the geneva convention.

Our president is a con man and should be removed from office for this crap.
Posted by: OldSpook   2010-01-09 11:55  

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