no, its OK to have fears. given the current makeup of the SCOTUS - I fear alot of things! But I don't think they have the stones, at least while Bush is president, to order these prisoners brought into the US (or a district court setup at Gitmo) to give them full US criminal trials. I am usually not an optimist, but I don't think the 5 solid votes they have on the SCOTUS will push it this far.
I guess all we can do is wait and watch things as they develop. No kidding.
Darn't it. We are going around in circles a bit, and I am not accusing either of us in a negative way..........but here we have this
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1522894/posts
"A bipartisan group of senators reached a compromise yesterday that would dramatically alter U.S. policy for treating captured terrorist suspects by granting them a final recourse to the federal courts but stripping them of some key legal rights.
The compromise links legislation written by Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), which would deny detainees broad access to federal courts, with a new measure authored by Sen. Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.) that would grant detainees the right to appeal the verdict of a military tribunal to a federal appeals court. The deal will come to a vote today, and the authors say they are confident it will pass."
This is what I have been quacking about. So by agreeing to Levin's crap, what I said I fear, is a reality. The doors are open to allow some sandscum that has been handed down a death penalty for instance by the military tribune, to turn around an put in an appeal to have his verdict handed down to the Libos in DC for review. This is what I tried to indicate earlier own which I evidently did not do a good job in communicating.
If a federal judge decides the military tribune's sentence is not fair, then the goon gets off. This is crap. And I know I have read about a year back or more some long articles describing how the military court allows for this very appeal process to take place within the body of it's own system. So why does the frigen Federal Court System designed to try cases for American citizens have to come into the picture. It is getting late, please do no feel obligated to respond.