The Process vs The Media

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I can't even post a poll about this issue because it is so complex.

 

What this Iraqi abuse case & the general war on terrorism is bringing to light is that a business as usual approach to criminal investigations can not beat the media in bringing this news to the public. The general answer is that the investigations take time because in the process of gathering information the goal is to prosecute those who are suspect. So every t must be crossed & i dotted so to speak before an investigation can go forward.

 

This is the process that was occuring in the US military at the time. This is also the process that occured in 2001 & continues to occur today. Events happen so quickly & information leaks to the media so rapidly that the need to cross every t results in undermining the very goal in doing so.

 

So what do we do about this? This is a huge problem going forward because the very people that need to be informed may actually be called to testify against the very suspects being charged. I believe the need to get the information to these people supercedes the need to insure the process results in effective prosecution. I am willing to accept that in that expedited process we lose the right to prosecute them. However; I don't think the world & the average American will be willing to accept that in the process of preventing abuses & acts of terrorism that the very people who plan or have intent to do them can not be brought to justice.

 

Which brings us to opening up for debate the need to create exceptions to the current criminal justice system. This is considered a taboo subject in America

but what else is there to do? The exception would introduce the concept of severity of crime in that subjected to a grand jury that if it found that a crime was so severe in nature the procedures of law to prosecute that case would be relaxed making it very difficult for such a case to be dismissed on technicalities.

 

Please don't just comment on this one. If you have a better one to offer please do so. But keep in the realm of reality to where you can not keep a lock on news events any more from the media.