Mo Rocca has appeared on a bunch of shows, including 'The Daily Show,' 'I Love the 80s,'...
Posted Mar 11th 2007 7:07PM by Cenk Uygur
Filed under: Young Turks, Jose Padilla
''I don't know what happened to it,'' Pentagon attorney James Schmidli said during a recent court hearing.
U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke was incredulous that anything connected to such a high-profile defendant could be lost.
''Do you understand how it might be difficult for me to understand that a tape related to this particular individual just got mislaid?'' Cooke told prosecutors at a hearing last month.
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Mo Rocca appears on a bunch of shows, including CBS News Sunday Morning (with the indescribably wonderful Charles Osgood), The Tonight Show on NBC, and NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! He's a sometime judge on Iron Chef and was featured on Telemundo's Amore Descarado. Last year he starred on Broadway in the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. His expose "All the President's Pets" was published by Crown in 2004.
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1. This case has stunk from the beginning. The bottom line is that this was an AMERICAN CITIZEN who was snatched and denied all due process and habeus corpus that he was entitled to under the Constitution. If it starts with one, of course it would continue to others, and we would have an Argentina of Chile situation - thousands of the "disappeared."
Padilla probably is guilty of the crime of belonging to a terrorist group, but the government did not have sufficient facts to show he planned an actual terrorist attack or they would have charged him for it. Nonetheless, he will quite likely go to prison for life and deserve it.
But as much as Padilla is on trial, so is our government's treatment of him as a UNITED STATES CITIZEN. He may be competent to stand trial, the standard is very low, but that doesn't mean his mind hasn't snapped from torture.
Since it appears the DOJ threw away the worst of the interrogation tapes, I think the defense should get the best hypnotherapist available, and try in a gentle way to relive what happened.
When any US citizen is denied the fundamental rights we are all guaranteed as part of this nation, all of us should be concerned.
Phil at 7:57PM on Mar 11th 2007
2. I think Jose Padilla was an easy prey for the terrorists; uneducated, unemployed, with a minimum wage job in the future if any, he probably didn't think twice before accepting the money offered by the enemies of the USA. He probably couldn't come up with a plan to hurt this country on his own, but the lure of a few thousand dollars was too much to resist.
Isabel at 1:52AM on Mar 14th 2007