Padilla case seen as a tainted victory for Bush

Reuters ^ | Randall Mikkelsen

[300magnum]

Somebody call the Waaaahhhhmbulance for these Libs. LOL.

[Duke Nukum]

I wonder if Randall Mikkelsen wishes he or one of his loved ones had been blown up by Padilla?

[ozzymandus]

CNN tried the same spin yesterday. The MSM will support terrorists to bash Bush.

[Red Badger]

A win’s a win...........Tommy LaSorda(?)......

[Spok]

“Padilla case seen as a tainted victory for Bush”

Reuters, and the rest of the agenda-driven MSM, will never give GWB a victory, even if every jihadist in the world waved a white flag. When will the MSM realize that no one’s paying attention to anything they say but the whacked out left?

[garyhope]

Yep, actually catching, convicting and imprisoning a real Islamonazi terrorist felon is “tainted”.

Silly me, and I thought it was a “good thing”. I must not be a “liberal”.

[woofie]

The man was guilty,and was found guilty.But knowing that he was guilty, suppose he still got off on a technicality...
Would the libs be happy ?

[KantianBurke]

Sorry. Padilla being accorded “enemy combatant” status was and is pretty shady. His being a US citizen should have afforded him base line constitutional protections from the very start. Here’s to hoping that sort of executive branch power grabbing never occurs again.

[ishabibble]

I read this over twice. Every single word in every sentence, every quote is carefully designed to be a negative against the Bush administration and it’s policies.

What a stinker!

[camerakid400]

I used to watch Keith Olbermann, and I always found it interesting that he would disregard the numerous terror threats/plots because the terrorists were unable to carry out the attacks and therfore there is no threat. Then I saw Ellis Henican say that the American Taliban terrorist should be released from jail because he was just a misguided kid.
Then I became a conservative.

[relictele]

"It validates the government's tactics in a way that the jury may not have necessarily meant to," said American University law professor Stephen Vladeck.

Jury nullification is FINE with the lefties when it benefits their cause, but they are given to clucking their tongues and mind-reading when it does not.

[andy58-in-nh]

Reuters = Al Jazeera, Western Affiliate

[colorado tanker]

Sorry. Padilla being accorded “enemy combatant” status was and is pretty shady. His being a US citizen should have afforded him base line constitutional protections from the very start. Here’s to hoping that sort of executive branch power grabbing never occurs again.

I tend to agree with that, although I might apply a different rule to an American taken overseas bearing arms against U.S. forces. Even in the latter case, though, I think a citizen would be entitle to access to the courts if he had reason to challenge his POW status.

[3AngelaD]

Hey, Randall. You have written an opinion piece, not a news story. I don't care what you think about the facts. I don't want to hear your lame spin. You must be getting a salary supplement from the DNC-Defeat America contingent.

And we WON. We convicted this POS. He is going to prison FOREVER. The Bush administration did this, and "reporters" like you, Randall, can pound sand.

[TonyInOhio]

Padilla case seen as a tainted victory for Bush

Let's fix that:

Padilla case seen as a tainted victory for Bush loss for MainStream Media

That's better.

[stop_fascism]

That’s a rhetorical question, isn’t it?

[6SJ7]

I think the writer of this article is saddened that with a victory in this case, the government took away a club with which the MSM would have bludgeoned this administration for ‘incarcerating an innocent man for 3 years’, etc, etc.

[hershey]

The MSM is in full campaign mode. Prop up the dem/Progressive/Liberal line 24/7. Paint the President and republicans as evil. This nonsense will gp on nonstop until Nov. 2008. And when Fred wins, they’ll tear their hair out.

[USNBandit]

I'm glad people on this thread are willing to discuss this rationally.

Personally I think all U.S. citizens regardless of location caught helping the enemy should be tried by civilian courts, unless it can be proved that they gave up their citizenship.

The flip side of that is that I think all foreigners caught committing terrorism regardless of location should be tried by military courts. The precedence for using military commissions to try acts committed inside the U.S. comes from WWII where German spies were tried for espionage.

A bad precedence was set when members of the first World Trade Center bombing were tried in civilian courts.

[Joan Kerrey]

Here’s to hoping that sort of executive branch power grabbing never occurs again. ============ I say more power to the executive branch. Pull all the tricks in the book if it means keeping scum like Padilla off the streets. Perhaps you can provide a list of American citizens who are being held illegally without constitutional protections who are not enemy combatants. And perhaps you can document that Padilla was tortured as he claims.