America in Danger: Important Courtroom Battles
by Michael YonPublished: 24 September 2009
Dear Mr. Yon:
It is my pleasure to forward to you the attached copy of the amicus curiae brief which we filed with the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on behalf of the Special Operations community on Monday evening.
We believe that this unique brief has the potential to play an important role in the Court of Appeals’ consideration of Maqaleh v. Gates. We are especially optimistic that the Court will value the insight that only veterans of Special Operations can offer as to the extremely adverse operational consequences that would flow from upholding the District Court’s decision. Thank you for being an integral part of this effort.
It has been an honor to represent true American heroes in this matter.
Best regards,
David
Please click here to view the entire brief emailed by David Rivkin.
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One of the best out there… thanks Michael. Love hearing from you every chance I get. You represent your uniform and this country in a way that makes us proud.
Our enemy studies us and judges us realistically.
We barely study our enemy, and then engage in fantastical, make-nice generalizations of them.
It is, sadly, very clear which side will be victorious if this continues.
It is sad. We can't train our Military to Murder. We can't sit around and collect evidence on snatch and grab missions. If this is enforced we will never go to war again because nobody will volunteer for SOF(Special Operations Forces) let alone regular forces.
"The District Court’s Decision Creates Legal
Sanctuaries For Enemy Forces."
Progressives will be happy Chavez and Ahmedenegad will be happy. Our door will be open for anyone to just walk into the US and have a seat at the White House.
The Left once again politicizing a war – when they have neither business nor experience to engage in one. And who pays the price?
Our brothers and sisters in uniform.
God bless the United States Armed Forces. Thanks for letting us in on this, Michael.
Your second sentence is sticking with me. Train our military to murder?
Not sure if the Left is monumentally stupid, criminally incompetent, totally and intentionally evil or all three.
Civilian courts have no place dictating rules of engagement or setting limits on our military forces in the field. Prisoners do not qualify for being Mirandized upon being captured.
And these looney-tune judges and people in this looney-tunes administration ALL need to be institutionalized before they can do any more damage. They certainly don't need to be allowed to roam freely without keeps.
I pray this doesn't cost more lives of the brave men keeping us safe.
Yes the statement is "You can't" train them to murder. Combat is different than murder.
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Is the constitution required reading any more, for any of the branches of government !?!?
I think it is pretty clear, Civilian courts have some how injected themselves into an area in which they have no authority. We have military courts for military matters because the area in which the two courts operate are well night and day. They military has kept us pretty damn safe for over 200 years thank you very much.
Aid and comfort for our enemies is still called Treason and it's a capital crime.
Perhaps we should let the judges ride along on one of these snatch and grabs and then they can procure all the witness statements and evidence that they require in civilian courts. .
I'm goin' with all the above.
Please God Go with Our Military.
Interesting Appeals Brief regarding evidence gathering and holding of detainees. Placing our Armed Service members in harms ways to do police work is nothing they should be tasked with. I guess if this is fully implemented then we would have to kill all combatants or just let them go.
Osama bin Laden has always said the US will lose this war in the US courts. He has studied us well.
"This case raises the question of whether courts thousands of
miles away should constrain U.S. and allied forces in ways that
will impair the effectiveness of and increase the considerable
dangers to SOF personnel who regularly confront al-Qaeda, the
Taliban and other terrorist groups in combat."
Its already started…………………………….the door has been opened for anyone since 1/20/09. But now its a revolving door. And shit flows in and out of it.
I am fed up with politicians and the courts aiding and abetting the enemies of this country for their own purposes. Between their contempt for our military and their contempt for our intelligence agents they are doing more to destroy this country than all the mujaheddin in the world. I say it's time "we the people" start holding them accountable.
Ah, ok. Gotcha.
Well Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!!!
This is a WAR, not a crime scene.
And Habeus is a US citizen's right in a civilian situation.
I have been seriously concerned about this exact issue, since the idiot decision was made.
CSI on a battlefield??? Or how about a line-up to identify a perp? This is a WAR not a crime scene.
Plan B: the Commander in Chief becomes the Prosecutor of record, requiring his personal presence at the battle site. Members of the Civilian Court System arrange their own transport, and investigations. They have a budget, let them investigate. The DC Prosecutor's office can handle it…
Once more with feeling :WE SUPPORT OUR TROOPS,
Let the legal eagles go to hell, I mean war, and deal.
The Civilian court system is not in the chain of command.
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