Azenion schrieb am 12. Januar 2005 8:47
> Durch das Umdefinieren von Begriffen alle Regeln zu kippen scheint
> derzeit die amerikanische Lieblingsmethode zu sein.
Weils aktuell ist und so schön in die Reihe passt:
"Security Nominee Is a Hard Charger on Legal War on Terror
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 - In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks,
senior Justice Department officials were scrambling to find new ways
to prevent terror suspects from slipping away. Michael Chertoff, a
tough-minded prosecutor who was in charge of the department's
criminal division, pushed a new tactic - declaring suspects to be
"material witnesses" and locking them up without charging them with
any crime, just as Mr. Chertoff had done with mob figures before.
"Mike was the one pushing to say 'Hey, we ought to look at using this
more aggressively against terrorists,' " a former senior Justice
Department official recalled Tuesday. "He was the one who made us
realize how this tool could be used legally."
The tactic would prove controversial, as many civil rights advocates
objected to the department's detentions of dozens of uncharged terror
suspects as material witnesses. But to his many supporters, the
tactic was typical of Mr. Chertoff's willingness to use smart,
aggressive and creative tactics to meet the newly urgent threat of
terrorism.
[...]"
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/12/politics/12qman.html
> Durch das Umdefinieren von Begriffen alle Regeln zu kippen scheint
> derzeit die amerikanische Lieblingsmethode zu sein.
Weils aktuell ist und so schön in die Reihe passt:
"Security Nominee Is a Hard Charger on Legal War on Terror
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 - In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks,
senior Justice Department officials were scrambling to find new ways
to prevent terror suspects from slipping away. Michael Chertoff, a
tough-minded prosecutor who was in charge of the department's
criminal division, pushed a new tactic - declaring suspects to be
"material witnesses" and locking them up without charging them with
any crime, just as Mr. Chertoff had done with mob figures before.
"Mike was the one pushing to say 'Hey, we ought to look at using this
more aggressively against terrorists,' " a former senior Justice
Department official recalled Tuesday. "He was the one who made us
realize how this tool could be used legally."
The tactic would prove controversial, as many civil rights advocates
objected to the department's detentions of dozens of uncharged terror
suspects as material witnesses. But to his many supporters, the
tactic was typical of Mr. Chertoff's willingness to use smart,
aggressive and creative tactics to meet the newly urgent threat of
terrorism.
[...]"
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/12/politics/12qman.html