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Monday, July 25, 2005

Soft or smart on terrorism?

Posted by: Hammer / 9:26 AM

I want to reach back two weeks to Coleen Rowley's decision to enter the race to unseat John Kline. The MN GOP was in furor because Rowley criticized Ashcroft's decision to seek the death penalty for Moussaoui rather than trading his life for information to prevent future terrorist attacks.

Fast forward to last week and the case of Eric Rudolph, Christian terrorist. Rather than seek the death penalty for Rudolph, prosecutors traded his life for valuable information:

As a key part of the plea agreement, Rudolph directed authorities to about 250 pounds of dynamite hidden in the woods of western North Carolina, where he spent more than five years on the lam before his capture in 2003.

Prosecutors were justifiably concerned about 250 pounds of explosives sitting in the woods, so they agreed not to seek the death penalty in exchange for the location of the explosives. I'm sure Ron Carey will be first to criticize the prosecutors for failing to take a "no holds barred" approach to domestic terrorism.

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