{"id":1034,"date":"2010-04-08T09:38:54","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T16:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harvardnsj.com\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2010-04-08T09:38:54","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T16:38:54","slug":"doj-releases-report-purporting-to-demonstrate-success-convicting-suspected-terrorists-in-civilian-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/nsj\/2010\/04\/doj-releases-report-purporting-to-demonstrate-success-convicting-suspected-terrorists-in-civilian-courts\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ Report Purports to Demonstrate Success Convicting Suspected Terrorists in Civilian Courts"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jonathan Abrams, NSJ Staff Editor<\/strong> –<\/p>\n

The Justice Department, in an attempt to bolster its argument that suspected terrorists can be tried in civilian courts, released a report earlier this month that includes a chart detailing over 400 convictions of terrorists obtained in such courts.\u00a0 But this effort has not halted GOP criticism of the wisdom of civilian trials for terrorists.<\/p>\n

The Justice Department\u2019s report<\/a> is part of an effort to push back against Republican opposition to the decision to try 9\/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) in a civilian court in New York City.\u00a0 The chart purports to demonstrate the U.S. government\u2019s proven success in trying terrorists in civilian courts; the Justice Department contends that it has obtained even more convictions than those listed, as it does not include ones that remain under seal or that solely involved domestic terrorism.<\/p>\n

Republicans remain unsatisfied.\u00a0 Senator Jeff Sessions, Ranking Member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, responded<\/a> that the vast majority of convictions involve document fraud and immigration violations, a far cry from the crimes with which KSM will likely be charged.\u00a0 Sen. Sessions\u2019s comments focused on the trial of Zaccarias Moussaoui, the so-called \u201c20th hijacker\u201d, which, he contends, was \u201cfraught with procedural problems, delays, appeals, risks to classified evidence, and even a lone holdout juror who spared [Moussaoui] the death penalty.\u201d\u00a0 Such problems will be experienced in future terrorism trials, according to Sessions.\u00a0 He continues to call for the use of military commissions, as he believes they are \u201cconsistent with our laws, history, security, and values . . . .”<\/p>\n

Image courtesy of the Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Jonathan Abrams, NSJ Staff Editor – The Justice Department, in an attempt to bolster its argument that suspected terrorists can be tried in civilian courts, released a report earlier this month that includes a chart detailing over 400 convictions of terrorists obtained in such courts.\u00a0 But this effort has not halted GOP criticism of the wisdom of civilian trials for terrorists. The Justice Department\u2019s report is part of an effort to push back against Republican opposition to the decision to try 9\/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) in a civilian court in New York City.\u00a0 The chart purports to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peZtUX-gG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/nsj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/nsj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/nsj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/nsj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/nsj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/nsj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/nsj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/nsj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/nsj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}