9/11 suspects to get death sentence without trial?

[jesuitsdidit]

The US government considers changing the law and clear the way for Guantanamo Bay detainees facing the death penalty to plead guilty without a full trial. The New York Times reported on Friday the provision would permit military prosecutors to avoid airing details of the interrogation techniques used against terror suspects.

http://www.presstv.ir/classic/detail.aspx?id=97256&sectionid=3510203


US mulls guilty pleas without trials in 9/11 cases

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:58:39 GMT

The US government considers changing the law and clear the way for Guantanamo Bay detainees facing the death penalty to plead guilty without a full trial.

The New York Times reported on Friday the provision would permit military prosecutors to avoid airing details of the interrogation techniques used against terror suspects.

Much of the evidence against many of the Gitmo detainees including the five accused of planning the Sept. 11 attacks is believed to have come from confessions made during intense interrogations -- the reliability of such statements could be challenged in any trial.

While details of the proposed death penalty provision have not been publicly disclosed, according to the Times report, it has been circulated among certain officials and presented to Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

The provision would follow a recommendation of military prosecutors to clarify the 2006 law that led to the creation of military commissions and does not make clear if guilty pleas are permissible in capital cases.

Many experts believe the proposal is aimed at finding an easy way to ensure conviction and would lack international credibility.

US President Barack Obama announced last month that changes would be made to increase the rights of detainees and that he would continue the controversial military commission system.

It is, however, unclear whether the provision has met White House approval.

According to the report, the possibility of permitting guilty pleas under some circumstances is among a series of options circulated within the administration by a special task force.

Obama announced earlier that he wants to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center by January 2010, declaring the notorious prison has caused the US more harm than good and has served as a recruitment tool for the al Qaeda terrorist group.

[jesuitsdidit]

but how can they
plead guilty when
Mossad did it?

[wasp]

The US government considers changing the law and clear the way for Guantanamo Bay detainees facing the death penalty to plead guilty without a full trial. The New York Times reported on Friday the provision would permit military prosecutors to avoid airing details of the interrogation techniques used against terror suspects.

http://www.presstv.ir/classic/detail.aspx?id=97256&sectionid=3510203


US mulls guilty pleas without trials in 9/11 cases

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:58:39 GMT

The US government considers changing the law and clear the way for Guantanamo Bay detainees facing the death penalty to plead guilty without a full trial.

The New York Times reported on Friday the provision would permit military prosecutors to avoid airing details of the interrogation techniques used against terror suspects.

Much of the evidence against many of the Gitmo detainees including the five accused of planning the Sept. 11 attacks is believed to have come from confessions made during intense interrogations -- the reliability of such statements could be challenged in any trial.

While details of the proposed death penalty provision have not been publicly disclosed, according to the Times report, it has been circulated among certain officials and presented to Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

The provision would follow a recommendation of military prosecutors to clarify the 2006 law that led to the creation of military commissions and does not make clear if guilty pleas are permissible in capital cases.

Many experts believe the proposal is aimed at finding an easy way to ensure conviction and would lack international credibility.

US President Barack Obama announced last month that changes would be made to increase the rights of detainees and that he would continue the controversial military commission system.

It is, however, unclear whether the provision has met White House approval.

According to the report, the possibility of permitting guilty pleas under some circumstances is among a series of options circulated within the administration by a special task force.

Obama announced earlier that he wants to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center by January 2010, declaring the notorious prison has caused the US more harm than good and has served as a recruitment tool for the al Qaeda terrorist group.

so by not giving them a lawful trial the government won't have to show how the government broke the law? i wonder what there lawyer says about this pervert of justice ...lol that's right they don't have any...and how can changing the law now have to do with a supposed crime from years earlier ??

[gilly]

http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-4417-0-5-5--.html


The Real Meaning of Allowing Guilty Pleas and Death Penalty Without Trial for Alleged 9/11 Plotters

Published on 06-06-2009

Source: GW's Blog


The tin-pot dictator will not let the media talk to the American prisoner captured when his plane crashed.

The dictator says that the prisoner confessed to a horrible murder, and has pleaded guilty.


And so - the dictator announces - there will be no trial, just a death sentence. Indeed, the prisoner is Christian, and the dictator says that the prisoner has asked for martyrdom according to his religious beliefs.

Would the rest of the world believe this is fair?

Of course not. Moreover, world opinion would assume that the prisoner might very well be innocent of the murder charges.

This is exactly the situation we have currently with the prisoners at Guantanamo.


As the New York Times reports:

The Obama administration is considering a change in the law for the military commissions at the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, that would clear the way for detainees facing the death penalty to plead guilty without a full trial.

The provision could permit military prosecutors to avoid airing the details of brutal interrogation techniques. It could also allow the five detainees who have been charged with the Sept. 11 attacks to achieve their stated goal of pleading guilty to gain what they have called martyrdom.

This is not simply a ploy to skirt the fact that these prisoners were brutally tortured.


It is also a way to silence them forever, so that they can never tell what their real role was in the 9/11 attacks, and who they received assistance from, and how they were able to convince the mightiest military the world has ever known to stand down from standard air defense protocols on 9/11.