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"Former Attorney General Janet Reno and seven other former Justice Department officials filed court papers Monday arguing that the Bush administration is setting a dangerous precedent by trying a suspected terrorist outside the court system," the Associated Press reports from Washington:
It was the first time that Reno, attorney general in the Clinton administration, has spoken out against the administration's policies on terrorism detainees, underscoring how contentious the court fight over the nation's new military commissions law has become. Former attorneys general rarely file court papers challenging administration policy.
Suspected al-Qaida sleeper agent Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri is the only detainee being held in the United States.
The former prosecutors challenged the Justice Department's right to bring al-Marri before a military commission.
Well, Reno got a chance to try the law-enforcement approach to terrorism during her eight years as Clinton's attorney general. And apart from its failure to prevent the attacks on the Khobar Towers, the embassies in Africa, the USS Cole, the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, etc., we suppose it worked pretty well.
Taranto was too kind to mention or completely overlooked the violent retribution this homely ectomorph hermaphrodite wrought upon a cult-religion in Waco, TX, early in the Clinton Administration. She/it/he and Billy Jeff were very forceful when it came to attacking American eccentrics. But the craven hypocrites ran like cowards from any strong action outside the US against terrorism, with the single exception of Bosnia, where air power alone was used. Mogadiscio was abandoned in a heartbeat and that example of Clinton's faint-heartedness convinced Usama bin Laden that the US just can't stomach extended military operations overseas.
Just overwhelming force against American religious nuts, like the Branch Dravidians, which these two cowards employed without hesitation.
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