re: #315 lawhawk

The system we have is set up based on issues of jurisdiction and venue, as well as subject matter.

Terrorists captured in the US can and should be tried under the federal court system (it’s worked as it should, and those arrested are Mirandized and treated accordingly by law enforcement).

Terrorists captured overseas should be tried in tribunals precisely because they were not captured using law enforcement techniques and because many were captured on the battlefields around the world or with assistance of regimes that do not have civil liberties protections as we do. That would include KSM and his minions who could just as surely be tried in tribunals as in the federal courts as Holder and Obama deemed; and both admit that the tribunals will be used in other cases where the evidence is insufficient for use in federal court.

What do you think of KSM being tried in New York? At a cost of 260 million dollars for security alone no less.