Lawfare - Terrorist attack US by demanding trials


	Lawfare - Terrorist attack US by demanding trials

LOPix

1-17-2008 6:04 PM

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bush, patriot act, terrorism, rule of law, courts

LOPix says:

The author, a lawyer formally part of the Bush legal team declares: “[a convicted terrorist and his] attorneys think that these decisions are better second-guessed by plaintiffs' lawyers and judges rather than our elected leaders.“ I always thought that was what the rule of law meant -- but if our leaders say it, it must be so ...

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