Al-Qaeda Assistant Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison

Depending on who you ask, the sentencing yesterday of Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri to eight years in prison is either evidence that the civilian federal judicial system can successfully handle terror cases, or evidence that it’s a dismal failure.

Yesterday, Jonathan Hafetz, the American Civil Liberties Union lawyer More…

Government Pressing to Finalize Conviction By Discredited Bush Military Commission

Why would the Obama administration, after having suspended the Bush military commissions that President Obama called an “enormous failure,” now be pushing to finalize the conviction and life sentence of a detainee who boycotted his trial due to procedures that he — and much of the world — insisted were More…