Former Attorney General Janet Reno has openly criticized the Bush Administration’s policy of treating captured terrorists as “enemy combatants”:
Former attorney general Janet Reno has taken the unusual step of openly criticizing the Bush administration’s anti-terrorism strategy — joining seven other former Justice Department officials in warning that the indefinite detention of U.S. terrorism suspects could become commonplace unless the courts intervene.
In a friend-of-the-court brief filed in the case of alleged enemy combatant Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, the former prosecutors assert that criminal courts are well equipped to prosecute terrorism suspects while guaranteeing the constitutional rights of defendants arrested on U.S. soil.
Reno, reached at her Florida home yesterday, said she would let the brief “speak for itself. I’ve been following this, and it reflects my concerns about the detention and treatment of people who have been determined to be enemy combatants in a manner that is not clear how it is being done.”
As opposed to, say, the clear, emphatic message you send when you burn people alive.
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November 25th, 2006 at 8:29 pm
I cannot believe the author of Waco and Ruby Ridge actually thinks that she is a good spokesperson for government restraint.