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2007-08-18
The Jose Padilla conviction Jose Padilla became something of a poster child for the Bush administration's abuse of civil rights in fighting terrorism. Now that he's been convicted&mdashnot of the original charge of plotting to set off a dirty bomb, but on the charge of conspiracy to kill, kidnap, maim, or injure persons or damage property in a foreign country—some will be tempted to see in it justification for the means the administration used. But it is not. The New York Times, in an editorial yesterday, got it exactly right:
The crimes committed against due process of law by the U.S. government are of far more concern to me as a citizen than that committed by Jose Padilla.
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