Posted on 11/13/2009 10:50:39 AM PST by smoothsailing
Today's announcement that KSM and other top al-Qaeda terrorists will be transferred to Manhattan federal court for civilian trials neatly fits this hidden agenda. Nothing results in more disclosures of government intelligence than civilian trials. They are a banquet of information, not just at the discovery stage but in the trial process itself, where witnesses -- intelligence sources -- must expose themselves and their secrets.
Let's take stock of where we are at this point. KSM and his confederates wanted to plead guilty and have their martyrs' execution last December, when they were being handled by military commission. As I said at the time, we could and should have accommodated them. The Obama administration could still accommodate them. After all, the president has not pulled the plug on all military commissions: Holder is going to announce at least one commission trial (for Nashiri, the Cole bomber) today.
Moreover, KSM has no defense. He was under American indictment for terrorism for years before there ever was a 9/11, and he can't help himself but brag about the atrocities he and his fellow barbarians have carried out.
So: We are now going to have a trial that never had to happen for defendants who have no defense. And when defendants have no defense for their own actions, there is only one thing for their lawyers to do: put the government on trial in hopes of getting the jury (and the media) spun up over government errors, abuses and incompetence. That is what is going to happen in the trial of KSM et al. It will be a soapbox for al-Qaeda's case against America. Since that will be their "defense," the defendants will demand every bit of information they can get about interrogations, renditions, secret prisons, undercover operations targeting Muslims and mosques, etc., and -- depending on what judge catches the case -- they are likely to be given a lot of it. The administration will be able to claim that the judge, not the administration, is responsible for the exposure of our defense secrets. And the circus will be played out for all to see -- in the middle of the war. It will provide endless fodder for the transnational Left to press its case that actions taken in America's defense are violations of international law that must be addressed by foreign courts. And the intelligence bounty will make our enemies more efficient at killing us.
Holder-Soros and the Clinton’s poodle!
This is mindboggling.
Am I understanding this right? Obama and Holder is bringing the masterminds of 9/11 to America. To be tried for an act of war in our criminal courts. We are constantly told that we are no longer in danger. Even though we have just been attacked again by another member who met together under the same spiritual leader as the 9/11 terrorists.
I don't know what you're talking about. The only thing that happened recently is that someone with a middle eastern sounding name cracked under the pressure of America's love of guns and committed a common crime that wouldn't have happened if "cop killer" ammo and assault weapons were banned.
(/sarc)
You forgot the stress of the don’t ask don’t tell policy!
You see why I’m confused. :)
You’ve got it right. It’s all part of the Obama Jihadi Outreach Initiative.
*We are now going to have a trial that never had to happen for defendants who have no defense. And when defendants have no defense for their own actions, there is only one thing for their lawyers to do: put the government on trial in hopes of getting the jury (and the media) spun up over government errors, abuses and incompetence.*
I heard about this while listening to Rush this morning on the way to daughters ballet class. I could not believe it.
And then I thought, they, the left leaning lawyers, are going to go out of their way to make the US seem SO BAD, that they are going to set this up so that this muslim punk will be found NOT GULITY.
I do not know how. But that is the goal. This is going to be bigger than trying to get ‘Bush’ on war crimes. This is going to put this NATION on trial for even going into Iraq, for doing anything to muslims, for being America.
Sigh.
People living in NYC won’t be too happy about having these terrorists being tried a couple of blocks from the WTC.
This is the guy who will soon defend in court the concept of "holding facilities", i.e., camps, for opponents of the Obama regime.
Anyone know if former Mayor Giuliani has weighed in on this yet?
Mugabe II is on the way.
I can’t imagine that they would be, although I heard on Fox a little while ago that Mayor Bloomberg thinks it’s a swell idea.
The Obama refused to accept the guilty plea and now want to have an all out civilian trial where the terrorists are given all the rights of U.S. citizens. This article is an excellent analysis of what is really going on. When they are aquitted or when their case is appealed on some minor technicality the Obama people will let them go free.
Americans want justice and will see early in the trial that they just might not get it.
As if the Tea Parties needed another recruiting tool to swell their numbers!
Two Words.. Constitutional Convention!
I don’t know about Guiliani but I’m now listening to the local radio here and it’s just as I figured, they’re none too happy. It’s a not in my backyard thing.
That is certainly what they would like to see, alright...
However, the demographics aren’t in their favor on this continent.
Wow, you have the template down cold. Did you major in journalism?
You assume that the results would mirror the existing constitution?
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