{"id":194930,"date":"2008-08-07T21:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T02:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/07\/hamdan-sentenced-to-66-months-gets-credit-for-61-out-in-5\/"},"modified":"2008-08-07T21:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T02:24:00","slug":"hamdan-sentenced-to-66-months-gets-credit-for-61-out-in-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/07\/hamdan-sentenced-to-66-months-gets-credit-for-61-out-in-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamdan Sentenced to 66 Months, Gets Credit for 61, Out in 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The prosecutors were asking for 30 years to life, but it&#8217;s pretty clear that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/08\/07\/AR2008080700248.html?hpid=topnews\">Hamdan was just some poor schmuck who chauffeured bin Laden because he needed a job<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The sentence was a stunning rebuke to prosecutors who had insisted on a prison term of at least 30 years and portrayed Hamdan throughout the trial as a hardened al-Qaeda warrior. The jury of six military officers convicted him Wednesday of supporting al-Qaeda by driving and guarding bin Laden and ferrying weapons for the terror group, but he was acquitted of terror conspiracy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, in a civilian court, much of the evidence that got him that sentence would not have been even have been admissible.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure when he is technically due to finish his sentence, but for his sake, I hope that it is <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">after<\/span> January 20, 2009, because I would expect retribution from Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prosecutors were asking for 30 years to life, but it&#8217;s pretty clear that Hamdan was just some poor schmuck who chauffeured bin Laden because he needed a job: The sentence was a stunning rebuke to prosecutors who had insisted on a prison term of at least 30 years and portrayed Hamdan throughout the trial &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[972,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justice","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}