Report: Treason charges ruled out

NBC, MSNBC AND NEWS SERVICES ^ | Dec. 19 | NBC News’ Pete Williams, MSNBC’s Jonathan Dube and Reuters contributed to this report.

[sadimgnik]

Two Al quida dirtbags will turn on him!

Methinks that, given the outrage that will follow any decision not to prosecute for treason, the Justice Department would not hesitate to go for treason _if they thought they had a chance of winning_.

The fact that they are reportedly considering not proceeding means they are NOT confident any Al Qaeda / Taliban fighters will speak out .. or that they have doubts about their credibility if they do.

It is unfortunate, IMHO, but I think it would be better to try him on a lesser, WINNABLE, charge and then expel him at the end of his sentence.

Mind you, I'm not a US citizen, so I can not feel as deeply as you guys do on this one.

Regards

Sadim.

[mdittmar]

Mind you, I'm not a US citizen, so I can not feel as deeply as you guys do on this one.

You got that right!

[wasp69]

The first thing he should do is convince persons such as myself that he is not working against America.

Okay. Again what would you have the President do?

[mdittmar]

GW has the final say!

What the hell?

Can't reach the "Whitehouse.gov website?

Is the feces hitting the air circulator already??

[wasp69]

That's what he should do.

I'm beginning to believe you don't want to back up your orignal assinine rant.

[ImpBill]

Seasons Greetings old friend.

Good to see you in print again. I don't think I am going to get to excited over this "article"(?). I read and then re-read the article. It has me scratching my head as I can't find it from the source. It also has a byline crediting multiple sources including Reuters.

The line that really caused me to scratch my head was the last in the article ...

"Walker has told U.S. authorities he was a member of al-Qaida, the militant network led by Osama bin Laden that Bush blames for the Sept. 11 attacks, Pentagon officials said."

Libs and other agents provacateur always tip their hand somewhere in their words. "Bush Blames"? What part of the planet does the pinhead that wrote that line live? He/She/It more than likely are part of the crowd that believes this whole episode in our history lays at the feet of Anton Scalia and the SC.

The case involving Johnny Bin Walker is breaking new ground in American jurisprudence and having been around long enough to watch our legal system devolve into a cesspool full of the bottom feeding beings know as "lawyers", I am certain of only one thing: This case will have more turns than the OJ trial before it is over.

The case has been out of the Presidents hands since before it began. But most importantly I wouldn't get too excited over the ranting on this thread based upon dubious sources at best.

Again, blessed Holiday Seasons greetings from an old #Free_Republic partner.

[mdittmar]

Email the WhiteHouse

G.W. may not read it but his peons will.

John Walker DEAD MAN WALKING!

Vice President's Cheney's Email

[mdittmar]

It has me scratching my head as I can't find it from the source.

HUH!

G.W. has the last word.

We shall see.

[Slim Pickens]

Just read your "profile" on your member page. You, my man, are an arrogant, paranoid freak.

I think you like yourself WAAAAAAAAY more than is warranted and nobody here cares about your tin-foil hat conspiracy theories.

Oh, and please, please, please don't stop supporting FR, we NEED you to keep supporting us or surely we'll fold...You know, you're the most important person in America!

[Credo]

From what I can tell, Treason would be constitutionally hard to prove. Since it's the only crime defined in the Constitution, that's what matters. I think even if he plead, you'd still need the two witnesses (which have to be witnesses to the act not what he says).

I'm sure there are lots of other crimes he can get nailed for. The Government must do everything in its power to extract useful intelligence out of this idiot. I for one would like to know how he was recruited and if there are any more like him in country. As much as I'd like to be on the firing squad, his picking out sleepers in this country and elsewhere would be infinitely more valuable. He'll be doing lots of hard time and they can always hang the death of Mike Spann on him which I am sure is a Death Penalty case (as well as sedition) if he decides not to cooperate.

[wasp69]

Charge this jerk with TREASON.He fought against the United States of America.He is guilty of being a traitor.Semantics at work here. WRONG!

Okay, I understand where you are coming from. However, there are a few problems. To charge this joker with treason in accordance with the Constitution then his crime would have to meet the criteria set forth in article III, section 3, clause one. While his actions do fit the bill, finding two witnesses to testify against him would be hard but not impossible. Finding two witnesses whose credibility could not be called into question by the likes of Alan Dirt-n-shitz would be well nigh impossible.

The other possibility would be to claim that he forfietted his citizenship under US Code Title 8, chapter 12, section 1481. That would have meant we could have left him to the tender mercies of the Afghani courts or the Northern Alliance (this one is one of my favorites). However, it states in the above Title that he would have had to have given it up voluntarily and could challenge in the courts to have it reinstated. Again, a commie Ivy League lawyer could argue that when he stated he was an American citizen to the CIA officers he didn't voluntarily give it up (notice the stories of how he is just a mixed up kid?). We would see a show trial circus that would make OJ blush.

That only leaves the DOJ and President Bush to prosecute under the Patriot Act so they have what should be a slam dunk case where they can put this dipsh!t in carcir, carcer, aw hell, jail. Hopefully they will instead decide to dump him in Langely and let the SPEC OPS and spooks have Christmas early. Maybe they will tell the press he had an "accident" during questioning.

[ImpBill]

I didn't mean to imply that you hadn't copied and pasted this from something, only that I couldn't find it. And the point I was making was that, IMHO, the words written in the piece were a compilation of more than one source, penned by someone who doesn't get to write under his/her own byline. And in fact with the quote I lifted were penned by someone who infers that President "Bush" is the only person to attribute the events of 911 to UBL and his band of lunatics.

GW does indeed have the last word as all Presidents do. It is called "Presidential Pardon" after the judicial process is complete.

And, again, the Walker case is breaking new ground and new precedence will be established from it.

The remarks to a cyber-friend, boomop, were only to suggest calm, which would be a novel approach here on Free Republic. A suggestion to let events, that we have little or no control over, play themselves out a bit before we start damning everyone and everything. But again, calm and patience are attributes that seems to be quite foreign on FreeRepublic these days. I sure didn't intend to put a burr under your's or anyone's saddle with my remarks. But I forgot, this is, afterall, the Free-for-all-Republic.

Merry Christmas

[wasp69]

The President should let justice work. Let the people who hear ALL the facts make the decision.

See post #35.

[ImpBill]

I did go back and click the link and this time it did take me to the MSNBC web page with the article as printed. The first time I went to the link it only took me to a page with four other links on it. Perhaps work was being done on the page when I tried to access the first time. Again, I sure didn't intend any suggestion that the ariticle was not genuine.

[FReethesheeples]

BARF!

[jwalsh07]

Report: Treason charges ruled out

Boooooooo.