{"id":669680,"date":"2010-02-19T12:44:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T17:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=77099"},"modified":"2010-02-19T12:44:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T17:44:35","slug":"ashcroft-defends-civilian-trials-for-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/669680","title":{"rendered":"Ashcroft Defends Civilian Trials for Terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Stein <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/02\/19\/john-ashcroft-civilian-tr_n_469022.html\">catches up to the former Attorney General at CPAC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In an interview with the Huffington Post at the Conservative Political Action Conference, the former Bush administration official said that there are &#8220;a variety of tools that ought to be available to an administration&#8221; in its efforts to curb terrorism and bring terrorists to justice.<\/p>\n<p>Asked specifically about holding civilian trials for terrorists, he said such a venue &#8220;has use and utility.&#8221;<span id=\"more-77099\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>When asked how to distinguish whether to use a military tribunal system or criminal courts for terrorist suspects, Ashcroft said: &#8220;It depends on the circumstances.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/05\/15\/AR2007051500864.html\">Ashcroft prevented the Bush White House from circumventing the Justice Department&#8217;s certification that blanket surveillance in the name of counterterrorism was illegal<\/a>, so you know he&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/archives.cnn.com\/2001\/US\/12\/06\/inv.ashcroft.hearing\/\">squish<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Stein catches up to the former Attorney General at CPAC: In an interview with the Huffington Post at the Conservative Political Action Conference, the former Bush administration official said that there are &#8220;a variety of tools that ought to be available to an administration&#8221; in its efforts to curb terrorism and bring terrorists to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2762,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Odi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}