he should be acquitted without prejudice immedialty. Everyone knows his confession was tortured out of him and will not stand the light of day. Therefore his acquital is a slam dunk. Once acquited he should be returned to his homeland posthaste to live a fruitful and productive life.

Well maybe not, you see it's only going to be a show trial, because if you can be detained indefinatly after acquital then you really are not serving justice nor having a trial, you are stagging a farce, nothing more.

Spencer Ackerman yesterday attended a Senate hearing at which the DOD's General Counsel, Jeh Johnson, testified. As Ackerman highlighted, Johnson actually said that even for those detainees to whom the Obama administration deigns to give a real trial in a real court, the President has the power to continue to imprison them indefinitely even if they are acquitted at their trial. About this assertion of "presidential post-acquittal detention power" -- an Orwellian term (and a Kafka-esque concept) that should send shivers down the spine of anyone who cares at all about the most basic liberties -- Ackerman wrote, with some understatement, that it "moved the Obama administration into new territory from a civil liberties perspective." Law professor Jonathan Turley was more blunt: "The Obama Administration continues its retention and expansion of abusive Bush policies — now clearly Obama policies on indefinite detention."

Glen Greenwood Salon.com

As I have said for many years.

Unless you are advocating the "happy accident" approach immediately after his release, you are showing one of the clearest examples of where libertarianism departs from common sense and reality.

meet the new boss, same as the old boss.......an appropriate music clique response, eh.....

that was the sound of the point going over your head.......

it has been reported that the torture confessions is NOT the only proof they have

they have e-mails and phone records etc to prosecute these terrorists with

Good article and good thoughts. How do you feel about people like him being targeted by the US military? To be more specific, if we have reasonable intelligence that shows he or others like him have been behind attacks or are plotting to, should we target them militarily?

Hst_Fan:

that was the sound of the point going over your head.......

Ah you're better than that. You must be on a particularly high horse today, and the air is getting thin up there. ;)

But that is saying very little. Frankly, Obama has disapointed a lot of people with his reluctance for restoring the Republic.

Which disputes the inalienable rights perspective, change your thinking at all on civil v military trials, and the reasons?

every now and then my high horse needs to be exercised....lol

when the outcome of the trial is rigged. When the government claims that they can continue to detain the suspect even if acquited the trial is nothing but a farce, a show, meaningless,,,,,,,,

The last person on Earth who should have the power to detain anyone indefinately is the POTUS. The Office is powerful enough with the power to imprison forever without any habeas corpus.

Personally, I thought the issue was settled in the Thirteenth Century when the Barons forced King John to sign the Magna Charta. But it looks like there are those who want to go back to the Dark Ages politically.

I'm sorry President Obama has been seduced by power into forgetting why these checks were invented in the first place.

I believe that military courts make the most sense, no confusion wth that. Since the SCOTUS declared 9/11 a military action there shouldn't be a problem dealing with it as such, and it wouldn't create as much of a potential risk..

Inalienable rights, and free and open court. Good idea, always, except when it isn’t. There is a saying, that you will detest, that goes pretty much like “in war there is no law.” As a nation we were happy enough to treat 9/11 as a military action, and we should continue on that tack.

this would make it far far worse...

continue to imprison them indefinitely even if they are acquitted at their trial.