Posted on 04/16/2014 7:57:49 AM PDT by Dave346
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, CUBA — Frustration gripped Camp Justice this week. By Tuesday morning, Army Brig. Gen. Mark Martins, chief prosecutor for the 9/11 trials, sat glowering in the courtroom, drumming his fingertips together in steeple-position as we awaited the judge’s appearance. The five defense teams were seething, reporters and observers were incredulous, and some victim families were furious.
“We came here four years ago, and we’re in exactly the same place,” said Lorraine Arias-Beliveau. Lorraine’s brother, Adam P. Arias, escaped from the 84th floor of the South Tower after warning others. He made it to the street, only to be killed when the building collapsed.
More than a dozen years later, and eleven since the arrest of accused mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (KSM), his trial with the four co-defendants housed with him in mysterious Camp 7 has still failed to begin. The pre-trial process limps along glacially. Over the past two years, the court has convened ten times for approximately 35 days—or 3.7 days every ten weeks, on average. The February session was cancelled, so it’s been four months since the last three-day session.
Final preparations for the hearings ramped up Saturday with a hopeful mood, particularly among those of us new to the process. The veterans were decidedly less optimistic—for good reason, it turned out.
The contingent included prominent lawyers, Pentagon spokesmen, paralegals, linguists, and NGO members—mostly law students on research projects, plus representatives from organizations like the ACLU. The media constituted one of the smallest contingents. The dwindling press corps included just ten people this time: one wire service, two U.S. and one British newspaper, no TV networks, a French documentary film team, two European magazines, a sketch artist, and me.
Monday morning, we were separated from the proceedings by three layers of soundproof, bulletproof glass.
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Something very wrong here. Why is the government dragging its feet?
These SOBs should have faced a military tribunal and been sentenced and executed years ago.
The problem is....they ended up torturing KSM in various ways. So, the prosecution team and the judge are really in a tough spot. Any accusations....will drag out the torture episode and the evidence will be deemed corrupted.
In my humble opinion...KSM will never get to an end-point....even if they spend another twenty years on his case. It’d be best for all if he just accidentally tripped in the shower and broke his neck.
.... Or set himself on fire while hanging from his neck and shooting himself in the head in a suicide attempt.
Follow it to its root causes: Before being AG, Holder represented terrorists in a law firm that specialized in representing terrorists.
Because Obama said that he would side with the Muslims.
Sounds ‘bout right.
So they can’t try him and they can’t release him.
I wonder what this portends for Tea Partiers when the Federales finally get around declaring us terrorists?
We have no government. We have a regime, controlled by a mysterious personage of unknown origins.
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