Joe doesn't want them in New York only because the Israeli's can't bomb them there without raising eyebrows. What a cur.

Why is this man still the chair of the homeland security committee? Democrats only have themselves to blame for this embarrassment - they are such wusses! Lieberman should have been banished a long time ago.

Joe, Joe, Joe. Listen to you ... "they are also not American citizens entitled to all the constitutional rights American citizens have in our federal courts." Sigh.

Sorry to get all lawyerly on you, Joe, but I'm afraid that's not how those particular rights work.

You see, Joe, some constitutional rights (say, the right to vote) are Citizen Rights ... you have to be an American to get them. Other Constitutional rights are Person Rights; they apply to everyone, American or not. On the Person Rights list is most of the liberties in the Bill of Rights, including essentially all of the protections for criminal defendants embodied in the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth, and Fourteenth amendments. Everybody charged with a crime gets the right to counsel, to trial by jury, to procedural and substantive due process -- the whole lot.

For instance, you might want to look at the 14th Amendment, which declares "... nor shall the State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Or the Sixth Amendment, which applies "[i]n all criminal prosecutions", not just the ones where the Defendant's an American.

Joe, it must be embarrassing for a four-term senator to make this sort of blunder, but don't feel too bad. The guy who should really be embarrassed was a Con Law professor at Yale Law School in the mid-sixties. Didn't they teach you this stuff? Con Law's on the bar, after all, and there's always the slim chance that some student or another might end up in some sort of job where a working knowledge of the Constitution might come in handy.

Poor fella.

Lieberman is such a team player. A troublemaker would have voiced his concerns privately, but not Ole Joe -- no, sir, he's just GOT to put out a press release, keeping himself in the news and politicizing an issue for his own benefit. Thanks, Joe!

Trials in the American Courts for those who we believe are responsible for killing thousands of Americans. American justice is something that we should be proud to apply to anyone we are willing to place in jeopardy of loosing their life. If we can not be confident in our courts in the most difficult cases how can we proclaim that other countries, Iraq to mention only one, should establish democracies with independent judicial systems?

I for one applaud this courageous move by the Justice Department. I think they have lived up to their name today.