Legal Commentary

Why Not Gitmo For Latest Suspected Terrorist?

By Big Tent Democrat

via BarbinMd, Spencer Ackerman asks a good question:

So Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the alleged would-be bomber of Northwest Airlines flight 253, is being detained and questioned in a federal prison in Michigan. [. . .] If convicted, he’ll be imprisoned in a federal prison. [. . .] Just like the one that Republican politicians said would leave American communities vulnerable if Guantanamo detainees were sent there. [. . . N]ow here’s a real live aspiring terrorist [. . .] going to a real live federal prison on actual American soil and … nothing [from the GOP]. It’s almost like these guys are hypocrites who don’t think through what they say before they find a bank of cameras.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on December 28, 2009 (boomark / email).