{"id":400577,"date":"2010-03-07T16:36:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T21:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=78567"},"modified":"2010-03-07T16:36:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T21:36:23","slug":"who%e2%80%99ll-be-the-first-goper-to-call-for-al-qaeda%e2%80%99s-american-to-be-tried-in-a-military-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/400577","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019ll Be the First GOPer to Call for al-Qaeda\u2019s American to Be Tried in a Military Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Gadahn, the California metalhead (<a href=\"http:\/\/attackerman.firedoglake.com\/2009\/12\/12\/al-qaedas-heshen-obsession\/\">really<\/a>!) who became al-Qaeda&#8217;s first American citizen recruit, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/08\/world\/asia\/08qaeda.html?hp\">been apprehended in Pakistan<\/a>. In 2006, the Bush Justice Department <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/10\/11\/AR2006101101121.html\">indicted<\/a> Gadahn on charges of treason. But since then, a Democrat has been elected to the White House, and a principal knock on him from the right is that he cares more about the law than he does national security. So: How long will it be for a Republican critic of President Obama to suddenly discover that the Bush administration made a mistake by charging Gadahn in a civilian court?<\/p>\n<p><em>Update<\/em>: Alas, The New York Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/08\/world\/asia\/08qaeda.html?ref=world\">reports<\/a> that initial accounts of Gadahn&#8217;s arrest are incorrect, and the al-Qaeda figure the Pakistanis apprehended was &#8221; Abu Yahya Mujahdeen al-Adam, who was described as having been born in Pennsylvania.&#8221; So. Will he be handed to the U.S. at all; and if so, what will be his legal fate? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Gadahn, the California metalhead (really!) who became al-Qaeda&#8217;s first American citizen recruit, has been apprehended in Pakistan. In 2006, the Bush Justice Department indicted Gadahn on charges of treason. But since then, a Democrat has been elected to the White House, and a principal knock on him from the right is that he cares [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400577","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\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}