This is what Mort Kondracke said yesterday about the Military
Commissions Act, while he sat next to Fox News anchor Brit Hume and
Fred Barnes, neither of whom contested what he said:
MORT KONDRACKE: Well, as to that human rights watch spokesperson,
it's just false that this is — you can lock them up and throw away
the key is not correct. I mean, these detainees have a right to go to
a military — they have been tried in a military tribunal. The case
goes on appeal to the U.S. district — the Circuit Court of appeals
for the District of Columbia, second highest court in the land, which
reviews the evidence. And so there is judicial review of a
conviction, at least, and so, you know, it's just flatly false.
What is "flatly false" is what Kondracke told Fox viewers about the
Military Commissions Act. It is true that the Act creates military
commissions and establishes rules for those commissions in the event
that the President wants a certain detainee tried, convicted and
punished (almost certainly execution). Not even the Bush-led U.S.
will openly execute detainees without a finding that they are guilty
of terrorism. The commissions exist so that the Executive branch can
impose sentence (such as the death sentence) on detainees who are
found guilty of engaging in terrorism (or some other war crime).
But there is no right for detainees to be tried before a commission,
and there is no obligation for the President to bring any detainee
before a military commission. If the President does not want to
obtain a finding of guilt and impose punishment, he has no reason to
bring them before a military commission. He can just keep them
detained forever without any finding of guilt and without any
punishment being imposed (just as many of the Guantanamo detainees,
and even U.S. citizens, have been kept in cages for years with no
finding of any kind of guilt).
On Sep 13, 2007, at 8:10 AM, justifiedright wrote:
> Any examples of them making stuff up where they didn't admit to it?
>
> I don't think there are any.
>
> I gave you several in the MSM.
>
> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "asburycouple" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> > For years professional wrestling wouldn't admit that they weren't
> > really fighting either. The fact that they wouldn't admit it
> didn't
> > mean it was real.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "justifiedright"
> > <justifiedright@> wrote:
> > >
> > > AsburyCouple I gave examples of the MSM making up stories and
> > > ADMITTING to doing it.
> > >
> > > Do you have anything on Fox that comes close?
> > >
> > > I'm sure someone on this board is going to link to some left
> wing
> > > site that will say they don't like Fox. That's not the point.
> > >
> > > I'm talking about admitted examples of making stuff up.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "asburycouple"
> <asburycouple@>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Tom - I'll buy that both sides of the media spectrum have
> acted
> > > very
> > > > poorly and at times have not served the public by reporting
> > things
> > > > other than the truth. But please don't insult everyone's
> > > > intelligence by saying that Rush and Fox don't make things
> up. I
> > > was
> > > > with you until you went there, at which point your entire
> > argument
> > > > was invalidated...
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "justifiedright"
> > > > <justifiedright@> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Gary Wien <lightgrw@>
> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Just because Fox News or
> > > > > > Rush says so doesn't make it so...
> > > > >
> > > > > Gary,
> > > > >
> > > > > CBS did Dan Rather's forged document show.
> > > > >
> > > > > NBC blew up a truck with a device pretending the truck had a
> > > > problem.
> > > > >
> > > > > Reuters got caught repeatedly in the "Fauxtography" scandal
> > > where
> > > > > they doctored photos or staged photos
> > > > >
> > > > > New York Times colunist Jayson Blair simply made up stories
> > > > >
> > > > > Associated Press got caught in the "Fauxtography" scandal
> > where
> > > > > they doctored photos or staged photos
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Fox News and Rush don't make things up. The "mainsteam
> media"
> > > has
> > > > > been caught making things up and admitting it.
> > > > >
> > > > > I'll take Fox News for integrity any day.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
>
>
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