At debate, Pence said Trump team bringing ‘justice’ to ISIS guards. Under Obama, he called such moves ‘naive, dangerous’ – By Mike Levine (ABC News) / Oct 8 2020
The vice president and Trump have changed their tune on using civilian courts.
At the vice presidential debate on Wednesday night, Mike Pence touted what the Trump administration had announced hours earlier: Two ISIS guards responsible for the gruesome killings of four Americans were finally being “brought to justice in the United States,” appearing in a federal courtroom to face federal terrorism, murder and kidnapping-related charges.
It was a significant turnabout for Pence and President Donald Trump himself, who years earlier chastised the Obama administration for seeking to prosecute international terrorists in American civilian courts and more recently vowed to have the U.S. military – rather than the Justice Department – prosecute terrorists captured overseas.
“We can’t treat terrorists like common criminals,” Trump insisted two years ago, claiming his efforts to revive the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were “another promise kept.”
Similarly, in November 2009, Pence declared that “trying terrorists like ordinary criminals puts international public relations ahead of public safety and makes a mockery of American justice.”
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