Posted by
Defend America on Saturday, November 14, 2009 7:49:42 AM
GOP irate over trial move
By
JAKE SHERMAN |
11/13/09 2:25 PM EST
Republicans are irate over the move to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in
New York, perhaps within walking distance of Ground Zero. Yet Democrats
— including some from New York City — are comfortable with the idea
that the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks will ultimately be
judged by a jury of New Yorkers.
Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), a Long Island congressman on the homeland
security committee, told POLITICO on Friday morning that terrorists
should not be afforded the same rights to trials that Americans enjoy.
King said President Barack Obama is “caving into political correctness
and the left wing base of his political party.” Lower Manhattan, where
many presume the case will be heard, could turn into a “circus,” he
said.
“I am really disgusted by it,” King told POLITICO Friday morning. “To
me, it’s truly an insult to the memory of those killed on 9/11.”
Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said holding the trial in New York
“emboldens terrorists” and claimed the Obama administration’s “failure
to recognize terrorist attacks as acts of war is a victory for the
terrorists.”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29488.html
Friday, November 13th, 2009
Boehner: "Irresponsible."
Sen Cornyn: "Unconscionable."
Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey also speaks out:
By Philip Klein on 11.13.09 @ 4:45PM
Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, who as a judge presided
over a trial stemming from the first attack on the World Trade
Center, on Friday warned that the Obama administration's decision
to bring Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to New York,
along with three other terrorist detainees, to stand trial in a
civilian court, reflected a pre-9/11 mindset that viewed
terrorism as a simple criminal matter.
Speaking at the Federalist Society's National Lawyers Convention,
Mukasey described the move, as “a decision I consider not only
unwise, but based on a refusal to face the fact that what we are
involved with here is a war with people who follow a
religiously-based ideology that calls on them to kill us, and to
return instead to the mindset that prevailed before Sept. 11 that
acts like the first World Trade Center bombing, the attacks on
our embassies in Africa and other such acts can and should be
treated as conventional crimes and tried in conventional courts.”
http://spectator.org/blog/2009/11/13/mukasey-blasts-pre-911-mentail
John Yoo, one of the co-authors of the so called "Torture Memos" or like I call it the documents that helped protect all Americans:
Trying
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in civilian court will be an intelligence
bonanza for al Qaeda, tie up our courts for years on issues best left
to the president and Congress, and further cripple our intelligence
agencies’ efforts to fight terrorists abroad.
KSM and his co-defendants will have all of the benefits and rights
that the U.S. Constitution accords those who live here, most
importantly the right to demand that the government produce in open
court all of the information that it has on them, and how it was
obtained.
Arrested spies commonly use this right to get a better deal out of
the government, which will want to avoid opening up its intelligence
sources and methods on KSM, what information it got from him, and what
else it knows about his fellow al Qaeda operatives.
Finding out what the U.S. intelligence agencies know about al Qaeda
will be an incalculable boon to the terrorist organization, which will
be able to drop plans and personnel it knows are compromised, and push
harder in areas we appear to know nothing about.
Our intelligence agents and military personnel will now have to
conduct their capture of the enemy—often in battlefield
conditions—under all of the strictures that apply to arrests of
garden-variety criminals in the United States. Knowing that al Qaeda
leaders may be tried in court, our soldiers and agents will have to
gather evidence at the scene of “arrest” and secure it to the standards
of a civilian court, all while entering a hostile environment,
protecting their own personnel, and leaving without casualties.
http://blog.american.com/?p=7158
Rudy Giuliani reacts to Obama's decision on Neil Cavuto's show: