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Attorney General Eric Holder’s old pals at Gitmo detainee-repping Covington & Burlington give this latest news two thumbs up. Way up:
Congress took a step toward President Barack Obama’s goal of closing Guantanamo Bay prison on Tuesday when it cleared a measure allowing foreign terrorism suspects held there to face prosecution in the United States.
The Senate’s [...]

Steve Hayes has the scoop on how “the Obama Justice Department has quietly ordered FBI agents to read Miranda rights to high value detainees captured and held at U.S. detention facilities in Afghanistan,” according to GOP Representative Mike Rogers, “who recently met with military, intelligence and law enforcement officials on a fact-finding trip to Afghanistan.”
Andy [...]

LAX bomb plotter Ahmed Ressam reneged on his deal with the feds and continues to play games with prosecutors. They requested that a federal judge double his sentence for terrorism-related convictions.
The judge (more on him in a moment) refused:
Ahmed Ressam was resentenced this morning to 22 years in federal prison for conspiring to bomb the [...]

What’s that sound? The thunder of left-wing lawyers and Gitmo detainees jumping up and down for joy at the Supreme Court’s ruling this morning. Brace yourselves. Dissenting Justice Antonin Scalia warns that the ruling “will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed” and concludes “The Nation will live to regret what the Court has [...]

Defeatists defeated.

Lawyer for jihad.

Unintelligent.

Update 6:00pm Eastern. DJN: “Lawmakers in the Senate defeated an initial attempt Thursday to strip immunity for telecommunications companies out of a bill reauthorizing the federal government’s warrantless wiretapping program. Senators approved a motion to table an amendment to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that would have removed the immunity provision in the bill. The [...]

“I’m al Qaeda. I’m a sworn enemy of you. You, you, you, you, for me you are enemy.”

“It should be zero.”

Lots of buzz and left-wing triumphalism over the Fourth Circuit’s split decision ruling against the Bush administration’s detention of alien enemy combatant Ali Al- Marri. Orin Kerr’s quick read and conclusion is up at The Volokh Conspiracy. Kerr tends “to doubt the decision will stand.” SCOTUSBlog and How Appealing have background analysis and links.

Back from the ice rink and catching up with the afternoon headlines…
You’ve already seen the guilty verdict in the Lynne Stewart case. Recruited by Ramsey Clark, Stewart was convicted of helping terrorists by smuggling messages of violence from one of her imprisoned clients — a radical Egyptian sheik — to his terrorist disciples on the [...]

Via Drudge and the Associated Press, we learn: “Kerry in favor of U.S. bin Laden trial:”
John Kerry said Friday he would put Osama bin Laden on trial in U.S. courts rather than an international tribunal to ensure the “fastest, surest route” to a murder conviction if the terrorist mastermind is captured while he is president.
“I [...]

As the Supreme Court gets ready to release its decisions in the enemy combatant cases, the Scott Peterson case offers a helpful reminder that establishing proof of guilt beyond reasonable doubt is a tall order–as it should be in conventional criminal cases. In cases involving individuals suspected of waging war against us, however, a different [...]

Habis Abdulla Al Saoub is dead–the FBI confirms that he was killed in a shootout in Pakistan last fall–so the feds have dropped terrorist charges against him. Now, that is how to fight the war on militant Islamists. Better to kill them on the battlefield before they hook up with lawyers like this and follow [...]