Umar farouks Abdulmutallab, aka the "underwear bomber" who on Christmas Day, 2009, attempted to blow up the airliner over Detroit, Michigan, was sentenced on Thursday to two consecutive life sentences for his role in the attempted terrorist attack. The conviction and sentencing has supporters Obama administration is largely-abandoned policy change terrorists in the justice system and away from military courts that were the norm under Bush.
The argument made by Obama administration Justice officials who could not only deals with terrorists as criminals, but the criminal prosecution of alleged terrorists would be beneficial for U.S. interests abroad have been largely forgotten. Obama long abandoned efforts to close the CIA and the military run prison system abroad, the most prominent and polarizing as the still-operating detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
Critics of Obama's policy organization, sharing with also abandoned an experiment with test Justice Department Attorney Eric holder to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shake Mohammed in court in lower Manhattan, have largely succeeded in their opposition, but not with any of their efforts. Advocates of military courts balked at the extension of constitutional protection, which would afford terrorists. They saw also a practical problem in the investigation of terrorist goal was to turn the justice system itself - extend taxpayer-funded criminal trial and deliberately trying to put the system itself on trial in his own defense.
But many of the objections critics have been proved unfounded in recent years. Hundreds of low and high profile terrorists have been tried and convicted in civilian courts. The "underwear bomber" is just the latest.
Critics won some early victories in the war against civilian trials for terrorists and advocates of justice for Islamic terrorists has been quietly winning the war for years. Is it time for the Obama administration to re-embrace the early advocacy of the criminal justice system for terrorists in the face of so many results?
The argument made by Obama administration Justice officials who could not only deals with terrorists as criminals, but the criminal prosecution of alleged terrorists would be beneficial for U.S. interests abroad have been largely forgotten. Obama long abandoned efforts to close the CIA and the military run prison system abroad, the most prominent and polarizing as the still-operating detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
Critics of Obama's policy organization, sharing with also abandoned an experiment with test Justice Department Attorney Eric holder to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shake Mohammed in court in lower Manhattan, have largely succeeded in their opposition, but not with any of their efforts. Advocates of military courts balked at the extension of constitutional protection, which would afford terrorists. They saw also a practical problem in the investigation of terrorist goal was to turn the justice system itself - extend taxpayer-funded criminal trial and deliberately trying to put the system itself on trial in his own defense.
But many of the objections critics have been proved unfounded in recent years. Hundreds of low and high profile terrorists have been tried and convicted in civilian courts. The "underwear bomber" is just the latest.
Critics won some early victories in the war against civilian trials for terrorists and advocates of justice for Islamic terrorists has been quietly winning the war for years. Is it time for the Obama administration to re-embrace the early advocacy of the criminal justice system for terrorists in the face of so many results?
