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Originally Posted by aceventura3
...The risk that there is a judge or juror unwilling to do what is right for some reason.
This is an evolving matter. As we have gained more information it has become clear to some that many of these terrorist activities are not criminal matters and should not be treated as such, they are enemy combatants engaged in war.
My outrage is with a known guilty terrorist who killed innocent people not being found guilty for those deaths.
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I have no idea what you mean by an evolving matter, given that some of the most potentially dangerous terrorists were convicted in a federal court -- the so-called 20th hijacker Zacharias Moussaoui, the shoe bomber Richard Reid, the "dirty bomber" Jose Padilla.
The risk? That a jury might demonstrate greater respect for the rule of law than those who are unwilling to acknowledge that torture and other questionable treatment of detainees in CIA black prisons is illegal under US law and treaty obligations... not to mention such testimony being highly questionable and unreliable.