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[...] There are also those prisoners of war who we have captured and will capture in Afghanistan and other countries who will receive a trial of some sort. It is clear we need to try those suspects in a forum that achieves two primary goals—two goals, I might add, that may not conflict. First, the Government must have the power to use even the most sensitive classified evidence against these suspects without compromising national security in any way, shape, or form. In addition, those who commit acts of war against the United States, particularly those who have no color of citizenship, don’t deserve the same panoply of due process rights that American citizens receive. Should Osama bin Laden be captured alive—and I imagine most Americans hope he won’t be captured alive. But if he is, it is ludicrous to suggest he should be tried in a Federal court on Center Street in Lower Manhattan. [...]

Kerry Picket at Washington Times: Schumer in '01: Those who attack the U.S. don't deserve same due process as Americans

Sen. Charles Schumer's (D - NY) support of the Obama administration's use of the civil court system to try terrorist suspects is odd to say the least, considering how he saw this issue eight years ago. Immediately following attacks of September 11th, in December of that year, the Senate Judiciary Committee met to discuss the idea of prosecuting terrorists in military tribunals. According to the hearing's transcript, Schumer was in favor of military tribunals to try terrorist suspects.  (see snippet above) [...]

[...] Apparently, Mr. Schumer's pre-9/11 mentality is where the Obama administration wants to return to. Louis Pepe would disagree with his senator's position. Pepe was a federal prison guard in New York City eight years ago (ten months before the attacks of September 11th). He was severely maimed and disabled for life by terror suspect Mahmoud Salim. Salim was waiting to be tried before a civil court for suspected involvement in the bombings of U.S. emabssies in East Africa three years prior. After being sentenced to thirty-two years in prison for brutally assaulting Officer Pepe, Salim was dropped from the terror trial he was originally brought to the United States for, thanks to a judicial technicality. [...]

Schumer.  A true to form Obamabot.

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