(Janet)"Reno Files Challenge to Terror Law"

[in_cog_ni_to]

:)


Reno Files Challenge to Terror Law
By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Former Attorney General Janet Reno and seven other former Justice Department officials filed court papers Monday arguing that the Bush administration is setting a dangerous precedent by trying a suspected terrorist outside the court system.

It was the first time that Reno, attorney general in the Clinton administration, has spoken out against the administration's policies on terrorism detainees, underscoring how contentious the court fight over the nation's new military commissions law has become. Former attorneys general rarely file court papers challenging administration policy.<snip>


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"The government is essentially asserting the right to hold putative enemy combatants arrested in the United States indefinitely whenever it decides not to prosecute those people criminally _ perhaps because it would be too difficult to obtain a conviction, perhaps because a motion to suppress evidence would raise embarrassing facts about the government's conduct, or perhaps for other reasons," the former Justice Department officials said.

Some of the eight attorneys named in the document are now in private practice and represent detainees at the military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Most served under President Clinton, though the list includes former U.S. Attorneys W. Thomas Dillard and Anton R. Valukas, who served under President Reagan.<snip>

http://www.comcast.net/news/politics/index.jsp?cat=POLITICS&fn=/2006/11/20/525379.html

[librechik]

1. HOORAY FOR JANET!! You go girl! (and all the other attorneys with you)

[KoKo]

2. Woo Hoo.....Loud Clap!

:applause:

[CatWoman]

3. I've always said that when I grow up

I want to be just like her :)