re: #20 lawhawk

And as I pointed out on the dead thread, the 1994 convictions were the result of arrests made here in the US, and glosses over the serious problems with those prosecutions, not the least of which was the release of lists of unindicted coconspirators that allowed al Qaeda to get a good look into our national security apparatus and avoid mistakes that led to the arrest and capture of the 1993 terrorists.

Arrests by law enforcement is different than terrorists captured overseas by our military and held in military custody.

Exactly right, lawhawk, and as Gus and Jaunte discovered last night, al-qaeda would again get a look into the intelligence apparatus. This is going to to have consequences that the Obama administration doesn’t seem to be considering.