"Providing material support for terrorism" rises to the level of a war crime.
I'm sure the shades of Goebbels' and Tojo's drivers are relieved they weren't subject to this level of jurisprudence.
If someone can explain why a normal federal court couldn't have conducted this trial and reached this verdict, I'd be delighted to hear it.
Posted by Linkmeister at August 6, 2008 12:00 PM | TrackBackThis trial of Bin Laden's driver reminds me of Woody Allen's essay "The Schmeed Memoirs," which purports to be the recollections of Hitler's barber. Schmeed says things like "At first I never suspected what a monster he really was. The truth is, for years I thought he worked for the phone company" and "Once, when I found out what he really was, I wanted to let some short hairs faill down the back of his neck, but at the last minute I lost my nerve."
One suspects that if Hamdan is the best this set of war-crimes trials can come up with, they will not stand in history beside Nuremberg.
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No, and I think Justice Jackson would be astonished that the man was even tried.
Posted by: Linkmeister at August 8, 2008 11:41 AM