you were wrong. wait a minute. i wish i i could go back in time. assange s lawyer said that was what is charge was. apparently from the reading we just did, it may have come from the translation of the caw loke we y all term for rape in sweden. that s what i said. it is a translation problem and everybody else says it was sex by surprise. now it is showing up everywhere. i am a dupe. i am not making this up. it is apparently a light-hearted term for rape. it is poetic. obama s press conference. you said he began his re-election campaign in 2012 in ernest. who is ernest? sorry, i was trying to be witty. just leave me be. go to lauren, you haven t been to her yet. weren t you just in ernest on saturday night?
his name, would have testified that ghailani bought the explosives on the black market which would show that he had some kind of reason to hide what he was doing but by not being allowed to put that witness in, then the defense could argue oh, he didn t know what he was doing, he was just a dupe, or why he was buying explosives. it s a crucial point. bill: that s a great point, it would not have happened in a military tribunal, whether it was the brig in south carolina, whether it was a gitmo in cuba. why was this star witness this evidence was excluded because this witness identified this guy at one of these secret cia interrogation centers in another part of the world. is that the reason why his testimony was not allowed? i promise not to get too far down in the legalies but it s the food of the poisonous tree doctrine and our rules, because we protect constitutional rights, is that if the government coerces a confession and that s a
bill, it looks like the prosecution lost this case before the trial even got underway. during the jury selection, the judge made a ruling, and said that the government s star witness, a man named hussein abibi, was not going to be allowed to testify. the judge ruled that the prosecution only knew about his existence because they say that name was learned through coercive questioning of ghailani when he was in cia customer ce custody and had he been allowed to testify, what aibi abibi would have told the court is he sold the defendant the explosives that were used to phro e up the embassy. that information to blow up the embassy, that information was never heard in court and the defense during the trial simply told the jury over and over again their client was a dupe who may have helped al-qaeda operatives but had no idea what the consequences would be. that argument may have been a lot more difficult to make if the jury had heard ghailani had purchased the explosives. bill: wow.
counts. he was found guilty wednesday, today, of conspiracy to destroy buildings and u.s. property and tied to the attacks and destruction on two u.s. embassies in after africa in 19. the fact that he was acquitted of 284 counts, the terrorism charges is a major setback for the obama administration as it tries to move forward with plans to try the 9/11 terrorism suspects and detapeees being held in gitmo in civilian court. so what about this now? let s bring in our panel. steve hayes senior writer for the weekly standard henderson for the the washington post and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. charles? this is a huge elm bare embarrassment to the administration and is a blow to having the tears tried in civilian court. this is a guy involved in a plot and his defense was that he was an errand boy. he was a dupe. he had no idea what was happening. but that was undermined by the one count on which the jury
counts. he was found guilty wednesday, today, of conspiracy to destroy buildings and u.s. property and tied to the attacks and destruction on two u.s. embassies in after africa in 19. the fact that he was acquitted of 284 counts, the terrorism charges is a major setback for the obama administration as it tries to move forward with plans to try the 9/11 terrorism suspects and detapeees being held in gitmo in civilian court. so what about this now? let s bring in our panel. steve hayes senior writer for the weekly standard henderson for the the washington post and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. charles? this is a huge elm bare embarrassment to the administration and is a blow to having the tears tried in civilian court. this is a guy involved in a plot and his defense was that he was an errand boy. he was a dupe. he had no idea what was happening. but that was undermined by the