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Appearing yesterday on Fox Sunday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) railed against the Obama administration’s decision to try a captured Somali terrorist in U.S. courts. McConnell said captured foreign terrorists should be detained and tried by military commissions at the controversial U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
McConnell told Fox’s Bret Baier:
We just found with the Caylee Anthony case, how difficult is to get a conviction in a U.S. court.
I don’t think a foreigner is entitled to all the protections of the Bill of Rights. They should not be in U.S. courts. They should be at Guantanamo and before military commissions
The most recent similar case dates from the Bush administration, when Afia Siddique was detained in Afghanistan by U.S. troops in 2008 for attempting to shoot U.S. military personnel. She was quickly brought to New York, convicted, and sentenced to 86 years in prison. During the Clinton administration, Mir Aimal Kasi stood outside CIA headquarters in Virginia in 1995 and murdered two CIA employees as they drove into work. He was captured in Pakistan in 1997 and brought to Virginia for trial, convicted of murder, and executed in 2002.
New York University’s Center for Law and Security tracks terrorism trials and found, according to a report most recently updated in April, that U.S. courts have successfully convicted 187 defendants on “Jihadi-related” terror charges since 9/11.
Sen. McConnell: We Can’t Trust Courts To Try Terrorists Because Casey Anthony Got Off | ThinkProgress
Appearing yesterday on Fox Sunday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) railed against the Obama administration’s decision to try a captured Somali terrorist in U.S. courts. McConnell said captured foreign terrorists should be detained and tried by military commissions at the controversial U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.McConnell told Fox’s Bret Baier:
We just found with the Caylee Anthony case, how difficult is to get a conviction in a U.S. court.
I don’t think a foreigner is entitled to all the protections of the Bill of Rights. They should not be in U.S. courts. They should be at Guantanamo and before military commissionsThe most recent similar case dates from the Bush administration, when Afia Siddique was detained in Afghanistan by U.S. troops in 2008 for attempting to shoot U.S. military personnel. She was quickly brought to New York, convicted, and sentenced to 86 years in prison. During the Clinton administration, Mir Aimal Kasi stood outside CIA headquarters in Virginia in 1995 and murdered two CIA employees as they drove into work. He was captured in Pakistan in 1997 and brought to Virginia for trial, convicted of murder, and executed in 2002.McConnell is a moron, but this is nothing new.New York University’s Center for Law and Security tracks terrorism trials and found, according to a report most recently updated in April, that U.S. courts have successfully convicted 187 defendants on “Jihadi-related” terror charges since 9/11.
