Is The Fort Hood Shooter a Murderer or a Terrorist?
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However, this has not stopped Sen. John McCain, Sen. Joe Lieberman, Oliver North, and any number of Fox News commentators from demanding that the shootings be regarded as an act of Muslim terrorism.
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow sees these assertions as stemming from an eagerness to charge President Obama with allowing "a terrorist attack on his watch," even if it means ignoring the legal definition of terrorism. She turned to constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley to explain the legal issues involved."
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"A Little Background on Professor Turley :
Turley, in his capacity as a constitutional scholar, testified in favor of the Clinton impeachment.In October 2006, in an interview by Keith Olbermann of MSNBC, he expressed strong disapproval of the Military Commissions Act of 2006. In numerous appearances on Countdown and The Rachel Maddow Show, he has called for criminal prosecution of Bush administration officials for alleged war crimes, namely torture."
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I think that the Army is going about this in the right way," Turley began. "Criminal investigators and lawyers and judges don't have the luxury that some people have on television to just simply say this must be terrorism.""You can't just simply say that because somebody kills a large number of people that it's terrorism," Turley explained.
"There are plenty of people who act out of rage. ... Some of them are perfectly unhinged and they will latch onto religious views or political views, but what they're really acting out of is mental illness."
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You Poll
Is The Fort Hood Shooter a Murderer or a Terrorist?
the count so far .
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Murderer 23%
Terrorist 77%
You voted: Terrorist This is not a scientific survey.
Results may not total 100% due to rounding and voting descrepencies.
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