Should terror suspects be tried in court?
A once staunch advocate of putting terror suspects in the courtroom changes his tune:
In the debate over how and where to prosecute Mr. Mohammed and other Sept. 11 cases, few critics of the Obama administration have been more fervent in their opposition than Mr. McCarthy, a 50-year-old lawyer from the Bronx who had built a reputation as one of the country’s formidable terrorism prosecutors.
Now he has a different reputation: harsh critic of the system in which he had his greatest legal triumph.
He has relentlessly attacked the administration for supporting civilian justice for terrorists. He has criticized the military commissions system and called for the creation of a new national security court. After the arrest of the suspect in the Christmas Day bomb plot, he wrote, “Will Americans finally grasp how insane it is to regard counterterrorism as a law-enforcement project rather than a matter of national security?”
-Sam
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