Ashcroft Opposes Commuting Lindh Sentence

[Khephra]

snip......

Lindh's attorney, James Brosnahan who negotiated the sentence in a plea bargain in 2002, said it was the best deal he could get at the time. But he said the deal should be reconsidered after the government agreed to release another U.S.-born Taliban soldier, Yaser Esam Hamdi, from detention without charges.

Ashcroft rejected the idea, saying Lindh received all the safeguards of the judicial process and the outcome was fair.

"Lindh was fully adjudicated and had his opportunity in court to state his position, and the system operated to provide a punishment for his activities, which were clear and unmistakable," Ashcroft told reporters in the Netherlands.

"It's not really helpful to compare one case to another case. In each case the system operates. Justice was done in his case, and I believe we try to be consistent and effective in providing justice," he said.

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-lindh-ashcroft,0,4585696.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

[Soopercali]

1. The quality of mercy is not strained...

It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the earth beneath.

Except when you're a wingnut.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

2. nice one

goddamn, er, golly gee, that was good.

:toast:

[Disturbed]

3. Hypocrisy of a so called Christian.

Asscrack is a hypocrite and a criminal. He should be in prison and this kid should be released.

[bahrbearian]

5. " Let me anoint you in oil, so you may handel my Snake"

using my asscrack voice

[VegasWolf]

7. I don't wanna touch his snake. n/t

[movonne]

4. That's a surprise..

[coalition_unwilling]

6. Lindh is a political prisoner

No amount of Asscroft's waffling will remove that fact.

[Radius]

10. So is Richard Reid...(nt)

[SlavesandBulldozers]

12. uh

no

[Swamp Rat]

8. There will be no mercy for Ashcroft when his time comes.

[VegasWolf]

9. Ashcroft says all religous nutcases need to be locked up. n/t

[louis-t]

11. Ass-face is just pissed 'cause

he has botched EVERY terror case he has tried. Either that or he never had a case in the first place. We'll never know. Now you know why der Fuhrer wants the 'enemy combatant' status for anyone he chooses.