Obama Advisers Would Like to Give Osama Access to U.S. Courts
Bill Sammon, the D.C. Examiner’s Senior White House Correspondent, got a singularly tin-eared response out of Obama advisers John Kerry and Richard Clarke when he asked whether an Osama bin Laden would be privy to American civilian courts were he captured:
Responding to questions from The Examiner, Sen. John Kerry and former White House counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke said bin Laden would benefit from last week’s Supreme Court decision giving terrorism suspects habeas corpus, the right to appeal their military detention to civilian courts.“If he were to be brought back,” Clarke said of bin Laden, “the Supreme Court ruling holds on the right of habeas corpus.”
Kerry, who applauded the Supreme Court ruling, said it will be carried out by whichever candidate wins the presidency.
Sammon was on Brit Hume’s panel last night, talking about that story and McCain’s recently changed position on opening up drilling in the U.S.:
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