It’s incredible how intelligent people like Ruth Marcus are so blind to the big picture. We are at war, ergo military commissions/trials.
From the FBI’s history websight
http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/nazi/nazi.htm
Shortly after midnight on the morning of June 13, 1942, four men landed on a beach near Amagansett, Long Island, New York, from a German submarine, clad in German uniforms and bringing ashore enough explosives, primers, and incendiaries to support an expected two-year career in the sabotage of American defense-related production. On June 17, 1942, a similar group landed on Ponte Vedra Beach, near Jacksonville, Florida, equipped for a similar career in industrial disruption.
The purpose of the invasions was to strike a major blow for Germany by bringing the violence of war to our home ground through destruction of America’s ability to manufacture vital equipment and supplies and transport them to the battlegrounds of Europe; to strike fear into the American civilian population, and diminish the resolve of the United States to overcome our enemies.
By June 27, 1942, all eight saboteurs had been arrested without having accomplished one act of destruction. Tried before a Military Commission, they were found guilty. One was sentenced to life imprisonment, another to thirty years, and six received the death penalty, which was carried out within a few days.
A plane from Amsterdam an hour out from Detroit is most likely over Canaduh.
Dip them in pig’s blood then hang’em all.
A military tribunal would have been a good idea in all cases, but the Dems started objecting early on that this was not terrorism conducted as an attack on the US, but just the work of misunderstood little sweeties acting out because they hated that evil George Bush.
Now we’re stuck with these people, they’re in our jails and busy filing appeals (Reid just filed one, and so did Moussaui) and they’ll be happy jailhouse lawyers until they break out or are released early by some dim bulb judge.