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Charlie Savage reports that a federal appeals court has reversed a lower court’s order to free a Yemeni national detained at Guantanamo on suspicion of being a member of al-Qaeda. Here’s his description of the reasoning employed:
Judge Kessler examined each piece of evidence and found each insufficient to declare him part of Al Qaeda, arguing that flawed accusations cannot be assembled into a persuasive mosaic.
But Judge Randolph criticized that logic as “a fundamental mistake that infected the court’s entire analysis.” He argued that the evidence should be piled together as mutually corroborative because it is probable that a person with many suspicious indicators was part of Al Qaeda.
From an intelligence perspective, that’s probably persuasive. From a law-enforcement perspective, that’s probable cause. (I guess. I’m not a lawyer.) But for evidence justifying indefinite detention without charge?
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We could say the same about the Niger Forgeries, the Habbush Letter, and False Confessions based on Torture. Have I mentioned the CIA admitted forging Bin Laden videos. The “intelligence perspective” is LIES LIES LIES!
Why believe anything that the neo-cons say? The false Al Qaeda narrative requires that the Pentagon spends billions of dollars to perpetuate the lies. They would not need the Corporations for Public Policy and the lying think tanks and the embedded reporters if they were truthful.
I have also documented the false statements from government shills, Philip Mudd and David Kris. They blamed Madrid 2004, and Mumbai 2008 on Al Qaeda, when these were false flag ops by the Spanish secret police and ISI respectively. And of course Headley was a US spy while he helped plan the Mumbai attack. It remains to be seen if the “Christmas Day Bomber” was part of a False Flag Op by US Intelligence Officials.
From my long-ago legal training, that’s only probably cause if the sources are credible. My hunch is the sources were extremely not credible. So no, I don’t think there’s probable cause.
THE JOOZE DID 9/11!!1!
We’ll see whether Arizona gets to set the precedent on what constitutes ‘probable cause,’ vis-à-vis brown people, depending on how Holder’s lawsuit goes.
So Huffington Post has discovered that Mumbai was a Pakistan False Flag attack against India, “India: Lashkar-E-Taiba, Pakistani Spy Agency, Executed Mumbai Attacks” HuffPo did neglect to include that David Headley was a US spy who apparently went full-metal rogue.
HuffPo must read the Seminal. Of course the people of India knew two weeks after 26/11 that Pakistan and ISI was responsible. The US taxpayers give Pakistan and ISI, enormous amounts of money to continue their terrorism.
Sorry, you must be looking for Daily Kos. In fact, your statement could be considered racist.
I suggest you retract your statement because it is racist and incorrect.
Considering that there’s actually NO such thing as
in America’s system of law, any evidence will do. We’re entirely through the looking-glass if we’re arguing what kind of
is actually real.
Clever, but infinitely sad.
Frank, Frank, Frank.
Pull up!
Conspiracy theorists just don’t win when they call other people racist. It doesn’t happen.
It’s like stepping into a fastball, only to see too late that it’s a change. Don’t do it.
Stick to proving what you know is true, we might be interested. Even if brendanm is racist to the core (which I’m not sayin is tru), we’d rather hear what you have to say than hear you damaging your own proofs by barking and chasing after every car that drives by.
Once you let any government employees or elected officials (rather than a jury of the public) decide who should be held indefinitely then you allow crazies to eliminate their political (or other) opponents and that is the collapse of the Rule of Law, Democracy, the Republic and Everything.
Thank you. I guess I’m just used to Wonkette, where earnest people, wingnut or well-intentioned liberal, are few and far between.
Also, you’re racist for even acknowledging racism exists, which it doesn’t. except for reverse racism against white people. You are just as bad as the NAACP.