White House: Boston Bombing Suspect Won’t Be Charged as ‘Enemy Combatant’

The Blaze ^ | Apr. 22, 2013 | Billy Hallowell

[Mozilla]

We Knew Obama would do this. So what's new? I expected this. Now he gets a defense.

[dirtboy]

Boston Bombing Suspect Won’t Be Charged as ‘Enemy Combatant’

Yeah, it's not like he was a Tea Partier or a Pro-Life activist.

[stuartcr]

How was McVeigh charged?

[muawiyah]

Afterward this still very dangerous puke will be tried by an ad hoc peoples' revolutionary court ~ probably about the time the regular day guards shift with the night crew, and some of the lifers are not on lockdown.

After all, prisoners have rights ~ one of them is to not be locked up with a cannibal. One of the others is to not be locked up with a mad bomber who blows children to pieces.

Sorry our judges and politicians aren't as advanced as prisoners in their understanding of justice.

[isthisnickcool]

It’s pretty simple. Try for treason, strip of American citizenship then off to gitmo or firing squad.

[Maceman]

I wonder if they Mirandized him before they started questioning him. If not (as they said they wouldn’t), then any confession he made will not be admissible.

I have to say, I do agree that American citizens should not be tried as enemy combatants. However, he should be tried for Treason.

[Baseballguy]

What year was that?

[Diogenesis]

The criminal path leads to Saudi Arabia AND
the White House.

The DO”J” MUST insure that the path is NEVER followed.

[nothingnew]

This may be a good thing...the next time a Tea Party member lights up a cigarette within 2,000 yards of Blumenthal's office, he or she won't be charged as an enemy combatant.

FMCDH(BITS)

[kingu]

“We will prosecute this terrorist through our civilians system of justice,” Carney told reporters.

Carney called an Islamic terrorist a terrorist??? Someone's gonna get a strongly worded memo!

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

Dzhokhar gets full Constitutional Rights..

What about the citizens of Boston?:

[Mozilla]

1995.

[stuartcr]

‘95 or ‘96

[qman]

That is the correct way to do it, the constitutional way!

[rudabaga]

“How was McVeigh charged?”

Not as an enemy combatant. Citizens should not be charged as such, it’s a slippery slope. At some point, just anyone the party in power doesn’t like, who commits a large scale, or even small scale crime based on political beliefs, will be charged as an enemy combatant and tortured. I think this is the right move from a Constitutional perspective.

[Political Junkie Too]

How was McVeigh charged?

According to Wikipedia,

• Count 1 was "conspiracy to detonate a weapon of mass destruction" in violation of 18 USC § 2332a, culminating in the deaths of 168 people and destruction of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
• Count 2 was "use of a weapon of mass destruction" in violation of 18 USC § 2332a (2)(a) & (b).
• Count 3 was "destruction by explosives resulting in death", in violation of 18 USC § 844(f)(2)(a) & (b).
• Counts 4 through 11 were first-degree murder in violation of 18 USC § 1111, 1114, & 2 and 28 CFR § 64.2(h), each count in connection to one of the eight law enforcement officers who were killed during the attack.

-PJ

[Huskrrrr]

Three hots and an air-conditioned cot for life, coutesy of Uncle Sugar.

[PGR88]

I, for one, don’t want any Gov’t official having the power to decide if a particular crime warrants stripping someone of their rights as an American citizen.

The fact is these Chechen swine should have never been allowed into the country in the first place, but our PC, leftist Gov’t stupidly gave them American citizenship, so now we deal with them as American citizens.

[rudabaga]

“I wonder if they Mirandized him before they started questioning him. If not (as they said they wouldn’t), then any confession he made will not be admissible.”

Exactly. The other interesting issue that will be raised by the Fed Defenders in his case will be the fact that this public safety exception has never been imposed this far out. In other words, I think 48 hours is the longest they have pushed it. With this guy’s medical status, they are really pushing it. I think it’s better to simply Mirandize him so they can use it against him. Barring that, just don’t ask him anything beyond, “are there more explosives besides these that we found?”

[madison10]

He shouldn’t be charged as an enemy combatant. He is the enemy, but he’s a citizen.

Sorry, we don’t want to start a precedent of the White House/Congress/arm chair lawyers, deciding which U.S. citizens should become an enemy of the state. Today it could be a Muslim/Chechen, but tomorrow it could be a Christian/Texan.