Originally posted by easymo
John. If they have such damning evidence, why don't they just present it in an open court? The American people are NOT in a lenient mood right now. It would take almost nothing to convince a court that he joined a foreign army.
But perhaps the nature of the evidence is such that it is best kept out of the public light?
Suppose the evidence in this case is a couple of phonecalls, as well as a "secret meeting" between the terrorist and OBL (or whoever). If the Government would present these evidence in court, it would at the same time tell Al Queida "Yes, we can listen to your phonecalls, and yes, one of the guys in that secret meeting is one of our agents".
But Al Queida surely knows this already, that their phones are tapped and that we have spies inside their ranks. I hear you whine? They might suspect it, but they cant be sure. Also they might think that some of their lines of communication is safe. Most probably the information leading up to the arrest of this terrorist came from another intelligence agency (Mossad), and most probably they would never share any information again if one of their agents was blown in a US trial just to satisfy the bill of rights-hysterics in the US.
The less we know about the war on terrorism the better. Because what we know, the terrorists also know.
