Examiner.com’s Bill Sammon asked Barack Obama’s foreign policy advisers if a captured Osama bin Laden should be allowed to appeal his case to U.S. civilian courts. Sammon wrote:

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.

“If he were to be brought back,” Clarke said of bin Laden, “the Supreme Court ruling holds on the right of habeas corpus.”

Kerry, who applauded the Supreme Court ruling, said it will be carried out by whichever candidate wins the presidency.

“The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that they have those rights,” he said. “If John McCain were president, he would have to give them those rights.”

John McCain’s senior foreign policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann, said bin Laden should not be extended those rights, nor should they be offered to the terrorism suspects being held at Guantanamo. He pointed out that giving them access to the federal courts was “fraught with danger” and would “likely to make America less safe.”