U.S. Justice Department Won´t Seek Death Penalty Against Benghazi Suspect

Associated Press ^ | 5/10/16 | Eric Tucker

[Nachum]

The Justice Department will not seek the death penalty against Ahmed Abu Khattala, the suspected Libyan militant charged in the Benghazi attacks that killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, federal officials announced Tuesday. The department revealed its decision, which pushes the case forward toward trial, in a brief court filing that offered no additional explanation. In a separate statement, spokeswoman Emily Pierce said Attorney General Loretta Lynch made the decision after reviewing the case and consulting with federal prosecutors. She said the department remains "committed to ensuring that the defendant is held accountable" for the 2012 attacks. Khattala´s attorneys, who have

[Retain Mike]

Following is the letter I sent on this subject.

Ahmed Abu Khattala’s Trial Constitutes a Miscarriage of Justice

The Justice Department ruling to not seek the death penalty against Benghazi suspect Ahmed Abu Khattala perpetuates a fraud enfeebling the Global War on Terror. Prior legal practice and the Geneva Conventions all regard terrorists as beyond the pale and outside civil laws.

According to Article 13 of the First and Second Geneva Conventions and Article 3 of the Fourth, terrorists are not the armed forces, militias, volunteer corps, insurgents, or freedom fighters of any country or authority. They are not organized movements carrying arms openly and having distinctive identifiers. These abominations murder people defined as Protected Persons by all Conventions, thereby leaving no basis for consideration even as prisoners of war.

However, even prisoners of war are excluded from our civil courts by Constitution; a position re-enforced by Article 84 of the Third Geneva Convention, which requires a country must expressly permit trial by civil courts. For that to occur, Congress would first have had to pass laws abolishing the Uniform Code of Military Justice. As precedent U.S. civil law was never applied to over 400,000 legitimate Axis prisoners transferred here during WW II.

This miscarriage of justice occurs because the Supreme Court transgressed upon the exclusive power of the President as Commander in Chief to conduct military operations, including disposition of captives. The justices created a fantasy world where civil and military courts coexist with the same jurisdictions, and reserved for themselves the exclusive right to choose the legal venue.

US will not seek death penalty against Benghazi suspect Ahmed Abu Khattala
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/10/benghazi-suspect-death-penalty-ahmed-abu-khattala

First Geneva Convention (1949)
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/First_Geneva_Convention_(1949)

Geneva Convention/Second Geneva Convention
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Second_Geneva_Convention

Geneva Convention/Third Geneva Convention
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Third_Geneva_Convention

Geneva Convention/Fourth Geneva Convention
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fourth_Geneva_Convention

[TChad]

The Justice Department will not seek the death penalty against Ahmed Abu Khattala

Instead, the Justice Department announced that Khattala has won a pardon from President Obama, a taxpayer-sponsored personal makeover, plus A BRAND NEW CAR!!!

[zzwhale]

he shouldn’t even be on trial...
he should have been executed already...
islamic jihadi terrorists have no rights..... its war and military law shoudl apply

LOOK AT KSM in Gitmo... getting fat on taxpayer bucks...
here it is 2016 and this pos still breathes....

THIS ADMINISTRATION IS ONE OF THEM
that is why they are still alive
far as Benghazi goes.... the blood remains on Hillary’s hands
THERE WERE TELCON INTERCEPTS FOR TWO MONTHS BEFORE THE ATTACK REVEALING THE PLANNING...

[arthurus]

Abjuring to seek the death penalty is in line with the President’s religious beliefs. The perpetrator was merely doing what he is required to do by the entire literature of his and the President’s religion and should not be punished at all. However the exigencies of the President’s position and politics requires that the perpetrator be sentenced even as that sentence is minimized. Expediency for the promotion of Islamic dominance is a Koranic excuse for not appearing to adhere totally with the dictates of the Koran.

[SunkenCiv]

Zero will make sure he does very little time, and while in prison, he'll be permitted to vote in US elections via absentee ballot. Thanks Nachum.