Posted on 06/03/2003 2:41:35 PM PDT by Jean S
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:42:40 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Prosecutors urged a federal appeals court Tuesday to keep terrorism suspect Zacarias Moussaoui from interviewing a senior al-Qaida operative, arguing he has no constitutional right to question an enemy combatant and disrupt a military interrogation.
"The damage to the United States will be immediate and irreparable," Assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff argued as he tried to convince the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals that Moussaoui can receive a fair trial without access to the al-Qaida witness he demands.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
What sort of prosecutors do we have if they'll associate professionally with such depraved criminals? We need a better class of prosecutor, and a better class of defendents.
Incidentally, from the prosecution's point of view, isn't "the worst kind of defendent" the innocent kind?
Moussaoui should have beet shot within a month of his arrest.
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