Pataki Challenges Assertion Terrorist's Civilian Trial Was A "Success"
Pataki Challenges Assertion Terrorist's Civilian Trial Was A "Success" Former Gov. George Pataki (R-NY) argues with GWU law professor Jonathan Turley about the civilian trial of convicted terrorist Ahmed Ghailani. Pataki, who was governor of New York on September 11, 2001, is fully against civilian trials for suspected terrorists.
"You don't like the results, so you want to change the system," Turley said to Pataki.
Ghailani, the first former Guantanamo Bay inmate to face trial in a federal court, was on Wednesday acquitted of all but one of 286 charges arising out of the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya.
The AFP news wire says Obama's "plans for civilian terror trials" was dealt a "blow."
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