Obama Supporter Wants Osama to Have Habeas Rights

Bill Sammon put Richard Clarke and John Kerry on the spot during a teleconference Tuesday when he asked them if Osama bin Laden would have habeas corpus rights if he was captured and taken to Guantanamo:

While Clarke said that the U.S. has authority to kill Bin Laden, the former counter-terrorism czar suggested that the al Qaeda leader would have a right to go to federal court and ask the government to release him or show through due process why he should be held in U.S. custody.

"[I]f he were to be brought back" to Guantanamo, said Clarke, "the Supreme Court ruling holds on the right of Habeas Corpus."

I wonder how many voters would be pleased to know that the Democrats have no problems giving bin Laden access to American courts, judges, juries...not to mention discovery rights which could compromise many of our surveillance methods.

Of course, there is an easy answer. Don't bring him back alive. That would certainly be my policy if I was the president.