Obama advisers say bin Laden can appeal to U.S. courts

WASHINGTON Barack Obama's foreign policy advisers said Tuesday that Osama bin Laden, if captured, should be allowed to appeal his case to U.S. civilian courts, a privilege opposed by John McCain. Responding to questions from The Examiner, Sen. John Kerry and former White House counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke said bin Laden would benefit from last week's Supreme Court decision giving terrorism suspects habeas corpus, the right to appeal their military detention to civilian courts...

[>300,000 prisoners after WWII, zero were given lawyers - and that after the war was over, not still in progress...]

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