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Re: Questions from a non-Attorney
by randy-khan
I don't know the answer to most of the questions, but I suspect that the answer to #5 is that some "obviously dangerous and guilty" people will end up released. If that happens, I'm not going to blame the courts for that. I'm going to blame an Administration that decided that none of the rules applied to them because, mostly, they didn't want them to apply. They locked people up with little or no evidence, happily used evidence obtained by torture by other countries, quite likely condoned the use of torture by U.S. agents to get more evidence and the waited a full six years - six years! - to start trying the first person before the military commissions. It's appalling, not just because some innocents almost certainly got caught in the dragnet, but because the Administration likely has assured that there's no way to punish some of the people who actually deserve to be punished.
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