{"id":2915,"date":"2009-05-19T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2915"},"modified":"2009-05-19T12:00:10","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T16:00:10","slug":"not-rooted-in-american-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/05\/19\/not-rooted-in-american-values\/","title":{"rendered":"Not &#8220;rooted in American values&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want to know what idiotic &#8220;senior administration official&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/19\/us\/politics\/19gitmo.html?_r=1\">made this statement<\/a> in the context of justifying the new Obama military tribunals:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the senior administration officials said that although federal courts bar many kinds of hearsay evidence, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the hearsay rule is not one of those things that is rooted in American values.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is such an incredibly stupid statement I don&#8217;t know where to start.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 If one were asked to name off a few of the core foundations of the jurisprudence underlying the American justice system, the principles of hearsay rule would be among them, along with the right to face your accuser and trial by jury.\u00c2\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t get any more American than that.\u00c2\u00a0 Unless, I suppose, you&#8217;re talking about lynching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to know what idiotic &#8220;senior administration official&#8221; made this statement in the context of justifying the new Obama military tribunals: One of the senior administration officials said that although federal courts bar many kinds of hearsay evidence, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the hearsay rule is not one of those things that is rooted in American values.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-policy","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2917,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915\/revisions\/2917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}