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...biggest problems, however, is simply that this movie could have been made 10 years ago. The events of the last five years should make this sort of tense terrorist thriller more exciting, more vital, more visceral. This could really happen, a viewer should think. Instead it devolves into an entertaining bastard child of “The Fugitive,” “The Peacemaker,” and “24”—a program that has all the urgency “The Sentinel” lacks...
...After all, the U.S. government seemed to enjoy every advantage in the prosecution of al-Arian - who was accused in 2003 of conspiring with the terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad. It had thousands of hours of taped phone calls, intercepted throughout a dozen years of surveillance; emotionally wrenching testimony from witnesses, including the father of an American girl murdered in Israel by a PIJ suicide bomber; and a jittery public anxious for convictions in the war on terror...
...executive director of Human Rights Watch, an organization which investigates and reports on human rights abuses worldwide, said yesterday that the United States should not legalize torture at a talk in Winthrop House yesterday. “Are we stopping and arresting more terrorists than we generate?” Kenneth Roth asked, paraphrasing the words of Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld. Roth told an audience of around 20 students that this particular question should shape U.S. policy-making about torture and terrorism. He said that if the United States allowed torture in certain circumstances it would generate...
...State Department spokesman Sean McCormack responded to the bombing by saying Hamas's response showed its "true nature," while White House spokesman Scott McClellan castigated Hamas for defending terrorism: "Defense or sponsorship of terrorist acts by officials of the Palestinian cabinet will have the gravest effects on relations between the Palestinian Authority and all states seeking peace in the Middle East," McClellan said. All very well, but the U.S. and Israel have already cut off all relations with the Palestinian Authority since Hamas is now in charge, so it's not exactly clear what he's threatening. Indeed...
...precludes later criminal prosecution. Once a confession is coerced from a suspect, it becomes extremely difficult to prove, as due process requires, that a subsequent prosecution of him is free of the fruits of that coercion. As a result, the administration is holding some suspects who clearly have joined terrorist conspiracies and might have been convicted and subjected to long prison terms, but whose prosecution has become impossible. A year ago, the CIA began openly fretting about the problem. What happens, it worried, when continuing to detain suspects without trial becomes politically untenable, but prosecuting them is precluded...