Of those, 44 have been transferred to other countries; 44 referred for prosecution in either a federal court or military commission; 48 detainees were determined to be too dangerous to transfer but not feasible for prosecution, and will remain in detention; and 30 detainees from Yemen were designated for "conditional" detention based on the current security environment in that country.
About 40 other detainees, including the Sept. 11 defendants, have been referred for prosecution in either a military or civilian criminal court.
And while both Cameron and Johnson are invoking painful punishment to malefactors as the only sensible government response to rioting, there has yet to be a single prosecution in either the US or the UK for behavior involved in causing the crash (put aside criminals like Madoff whose crimes were discovered because of the crash).
I managed a couple of sketches of them yesterday in a lull while either the prosecution of the defense was conferring with the judge.
But given the history of the case, Mr. Davis does not have a lot of faith in the prosecution, either.
The specter of a new wave of prosecutions — either in the home country or in some international tribunal — hangs over the heads of former leaders Ben Ali of Tunisia, Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and the still-struggling Bashar al-Assad of Syria, along with some of their family members and associates.
"Aggrieved governments have had little success in the prosecution of either accused smugglers or dealers, and they have too little evidence to win most cases against large institutions for repatriation of objects believed stolen," she wrote.
Jennifer Daskal, senior counterterrorism counsel at Human Rights Watch, said Mr. Mukasey "is hedging in the interest of protecting current and former administration officials from possible prosecution," either in other countries or by a future American administration.
The firing of Comey is the central pillar of a possible obstruction-of-justice case against the President, either in a criminal prosecution or in an impeachment proceeding.
False arrests resulting from false alarms have historically (and especially in the US) resulted in prosecution and reputational costs for the stores involved (see Bickman et al. 1979).
