No Due Process at Gitmo

No Due Process at Gitmo

Last week, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., invalidated a plea agreement for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has been incarcerated at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for 20 years. Mohammed has been charged with conspiracy to commit mass murder in the United States on 9/11. Originally, the federal government blamed Osama […]

No Due Process At Gitmo

By Andrew P. Napolitano via Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity | July 17, 2025 Last week, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., invalidated a plea agreement for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has been incarcerated at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for 20 years. Mohammed has been charged with conspiracy to commit mass murder in the United States on 9/11. Originally, the federal government blamed Osama bin Laden as the 9…

No Due Process at Gitmo - The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity

Last week, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., invalidated a plea agreement for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has been incarcerated at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for 20 years. Mohammed has been charged with conspiracy to commit mass murder in the United States on 9/11. Originally, the federal government blamed Osama bin Laden as the 9/11 mastermind. Then, after bin Laden was murdered in his home in Pakistan by the feds, …

Due Process is for everyone

Perhaps, like me, you watched more television police shows in your youth than you’d care to admit. For many of us, the words, “You have the right to remain silent … you have the right to an attorney present … ” are indelibly etched on our brains. And they should be, because those words from the Miranda warning are a functional, although limited, interpretation of the Fifth Amendment of the Constit...