Why Due Process Is Important For Accused Terrorists

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http://www.businessinsider.com/due-process-is-important-for-terrorists-2013-5


Paul Kevin Curtis

When Paul Kevin Curtis was arrested by the FBI and accused of sending letters laced with the poison ricin to President Obama, he wasn't wearing a special uniform that identified him as a terrorist.

But not because terrorists don't wear uniforms. "What looked at first like classic terrorism -- poisoned letters sent to the president and other public officials -- now seems more likely to be the product of a local feud," USA Today reports. "In the past week, the FBI has arrested Kevin Curtis, released him, and then, on Saturday, arrested his online sparring partner, Everett Dutschke."

Dutschke is charged with "knowingly developing, producing, stockpiling, transferring, acquiring, retaining and possessing a biological agent, toxin and delivery system, for use as a weapon, to wit: ricin." The FBI now says Dutschke framed Curtis, the man that they originally arrested.

Do they finally have it right?


Read more: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/05/why-due-process-is-important-for-accused-terrorists-a-case-study/275558/#ixzz2SVnyO0iD

[pipoman]

1. Holy Hell!

I wonder what online site they were sparring on..freeperville?

Oh, and everyone charged with a crime deserves due process and access to defense tools...attorneys, all witnesses, all evidence and defense investigators.

[hack89]

2. What about the non-accused "terrorist" on the Terror Watch List?

Talk about a star chamber extra-legal process.

[el_bryanto]

3. I think with American Terrorists attacking within America and arrested in America

the practice has been to use due process. The complications come when they are not in America but in nations where they will not be extradited. I don't like the solution we have come up with (drone strikes) but I can admit that it's a complicated problem.

Bryant