Re: Fwd: News Alert: Judge Bars Major Witness From Civilian Terrorism Trial

dick.... I ask "pointedly" and sarcastically.... Do you recommend that
we return to the medieval; practice of throwing a bound prisoner into
deep water and waiting to see if he or she floats, as a means to
determine guilt or innocence?.... oh yeah, apparently, if you are
among those "conservatives" who favor waterboarding.... you just
might....
nominal9

On Oct 6, 11:11 am, dick <rhomp2...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Looks like another judge who is making the civilian trials of terrorists
> more difficult.  No wonder the military wants to do its own trials.
>
>
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> Subject:        News Alert: Judge Bars Major Witness From Civilian Terrorism
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> Trial
> Date:   Wed, 6 Oct 2010 10:17:07 -0400
> From:   NYTimes.com News Alert <nytdir...@nytimes.com>
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> Breaking News Alert
> The New York Times
> Wed, October 06, 2010 -- 10:15 AM ET
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>
> Judge Bars Major Witness From Civilian Terrorism Trial
>
> Minutes before a major terrorism trial was about to begin, a
> federal judge barred prosecutors in Manhattan on Wednesday
> from using a key witness.
>
> The government had acknowledged it learned about the witness
> from the defendant, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, while he was
> being interrogated while being held in a secret overseas jail
> run by the C.I.A.
>
> The ruling by Judge Lewis A. Kaplan would be a setback for
> the Obama administration's goal of trying former detainees in
> civilian courts because it would limit the kinds of evidence
> prosecutors can introduce. It was not immediately clear if
> prosecutors would appeal the ruling.
>
> The defendant, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, was scheduled to begin
> trial on Wednesday in Federal District Court on charges he
> conspired in the 1998 bombings of the American Embassies in
> Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The attacks,
> orchestrated by Al Qaeda, killed 224 people.
>
> Read More:http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/07/nyregion/07ghailani.html?hp&emc=na
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