Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey blasts pre-9/11 mentality in KSM decision
Phillip Klein: ” Speaking at the Federalist Society’s National Lawyers Convention, Mukasey described the move as ‘a decision I consider not only unwise, but based on a refusal to face the fact that what we are involved with here is a war with people who follow religiously-based ideology that calls on them to kill us, and to return instead to the mindset that prevailed before Sept. 11 that acts like the first World Trade Center bombing, … can and should be treated as conventional crimes and tried in conventional courts.’ “
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“The difficulty of trying terror suspects through civilian courts, he said is that the discovery process, the public presentation of evidence, and other elements of a trial ‘could turn a criminal proceeding into a cornucopia of information for those still at large and a circus for those in custody.”
”.. when capturing the enemy combatants, pieces of information ‘were not gathered, nor was evidence gathered, on the assumption that they would be presented in a federal court.’ “