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2003-07-03
Justice Department attacks the 6th amendment
The New Times has a story headlined "Justice Dept. Asks Court to Reconsider Ruling on 9/11 Suspect."
The Justice Department has asked a federal appeals court to reconsider its decision declining to prevent Zacarias Moussaoui from interviewing captured people linked to Al Qaeda to support his defense that he was not involved in the Sept. 11 terrorist plot. I had always believed that it was up to the government to decide whether the trade-off in national security vs. disclosure of information to a defendent in the hope obtaining a conviction was worthwhile. There are extremely good reasons for the 6th amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteeing rights to public trial, to judgment by an impartial jury, to being confronted by the prosecution's witnesses and to being able to compel favorable witnesses to testify. Without these rights, we are all potentially subject to retribution on the part of the government—that same government that has been granted the power, after following due process, to forcibly take our possessions, our ability to live freely and even our lives. This power is granted by we, the people, and ought not to be given up by us.
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