{"id":294643,"date":"2010-02-08T19:35:43","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T00:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011018782_tryingterrorsuspects.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-02-08T19:35:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T00:35:43","slug":"trying-terror-suspects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/294643","title":{"rendered":"Trying terror suspects"},"content":{"rendered":"

Precedence doesn\u2019t hold with Christmas Day bomber<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was drawn to read Matt Apuzzo\u2019s article \u201cUnexpected controversy on right to remain silent\u201d [News, Feb. 4]. Referring to Sen. Susan Collins statement that the right to have a lawyer applies to U.S. citizens and not to foreign terrorists, Apuzzo says: \u201cCollins is wrong. Immigrants, even those who entered the country illegally, are guaranteed lawyers in the United States when they commit a crime.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leaving aside the minor \u2014 but obvious points \u2014 that terrorists entering this country can hardly be classified as \u201cimmigrants\u201d and the fact that those detained as \u201cenemy combatants\u201d are entitled to a lawyer at trial in military tribunals, Apuzzo states as a fact that the Constitution guarantees enemy combatants trials in civilian courts.<\/p>\n

That is the heart of the controversy; It is not settled because he says so. William Buckley was known for responding \u201cBy whom and to whose satisfaction.\u201d when told \u201cIt has been shown that \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Apuzzo goes on at great length citing cases where terrorists were tried in civilian courts. This doesn\u2019t show it was the right thing to do. That\u2019s what this is about. I do not believe Apuzzo is qualified to explain this part of the Constitution.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Ron Kroeger, Redmond<\/em><\/p>\n

Obama, not FBI, responsible for \u2018botched\u2019 interrogation<\/strong><\/p>\n

Matt Apuzzo is just another example of a long list [of reporters] who graphically illustrates the Obama administration\u2019s ill-conceived resolutions to lead this country when confronted by increased risks of terror \u2014 and instead opt for a utopian view of civil rights.<\/p>\n

It is incompetent and ill-conceived because the Miranda rule is not a constitutional requirement \u2014 only one conceived by the majority of the Supreme Court. The court-made rule had been misapplied for decades and it has become too late to remove it.<\/p>\n

Additionally, a political decision to subject our citizens to the risk of annihilation merely to afford anyone \u2014 citizen or otherwise \u2014 the right to remain silent, when an exigent emergency is at hand, has never been the rule \u2014 constitutional or otherwise \u2014 but a well-recognized exception.<\/p>\n

Nor has it been the exclusive responsibility of the FBI or any other agency to interrogate a terrorist. The decision to make it the sole responsibility is another example of the incompetence of this administration, which should be able to anticipate the investigation, detention, arrest and interrogation of terrorists both inside and outside this country\u2019s borders, as well as on and off the battlefield.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Elliott E. Alhadeff, Sammamish<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Precedence doesn\u2019t hold with Christmas Day bomber I was drawn to read Matt Apuzzo\u2019s article \u201cUnexpected controversy on right to remain silent\u201d [News, Feb. 4]. Referring to Sen. Susan Collins statement that the right to have a lawyer applies to U.S. citizens and not to foreign terrorists, Apuzzo says: \u201cCollins is wrong. Immigrants, even those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}