Boston Bombing Suspect Not Charged as Enemy Combatant

iroots.org April 22, 2013 No Comments

Contrary to the desires of neoconservatives, like senators McCain and Graham, the White House press secretary, Jay Carney, has just announced that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will not be charged as an ‘enemy combatant.’

UPDATE: Read the official ‘Criminal Complaint’–United States of America vs. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

JAY CARNEY: He will not be treated as an enemy combatant. We will prosecute this terrorist through our civilian system of justice. Under U.S. law, United States citizens cannot be tried in military commissions. And it is important to remember that since 9/11 we have used the federal court system to convict and incarcerate hundreds of terrorists. The effective use of the criminal justice system has resulted in the interrogation, conviction and detention of both U.S. citizens and non-citizens for acts of terrorism committed inside the United States and around the world.

The system has repeatedly proven that it can successfully handle the threat we continue to face. There are a number of examples of this, high profile examples: The Times Square Bomber Faisal Shahzad pled guilty and was sentenced to life in prison. Abdul Muttalib, the so-called underwear bomber, was sentenced to life in prison. Warsame, a Somalian national and member of al-Shabab and has close associations with al Qaeda in the Arabia Peninsula, is now currently in this system and we have acquired valuable intelligence from him through the process allowed in the system. So this is absolutely the right way to go and the appropriate way to go. When it comes to United States citizens, it is against the law to try them in military commissions.

More: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/carney_boston_bomber_will_not_be_charged_as_enemy_combatant.html

Judge Napolitano debates the issue on FOX: