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Defend America on Saturday, December 05, 2009 12:01:14 AM
Reversing Obama on the KSM Trial
The prisoner abuse photos show it can be done.
By Andrew C. McCarthy
Is
there any way of getting Obama to reverse himself on KSM? If I’ve heard
that question once, I’ve heard it a thousand times since Attorney
General Eric Holder’s announcement that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four
other 9/11 plotters will be transferred to New York City for a trial in
the civilian justice system.
My answer has been the same each
time: We absolutely can get President Obama to reverse this decision.
We’ve done it before. This spring, outraged Americans made their voices
heard when the Obama administration attempted to disclose top-secret
photographs said to depict the abuse of prisoners in U.S. custody. The
president backed down, reversing his attorney general’s decision not to
appeal a disclosure order. On Monday, that popular national-security
resolve paid big dividends when the Supreme Court ruled in favor of
keeping the pictures classified. Much to the chagrin of DOJ’s
pro-detainee activists and their friends at the ACLU, the photos will
not see the light of day.
It’s worth pausing to consider how
this happened. The photo episode gives us the template for turning back
the administration’s determination to reward the murderers of nearly
3,000 civilians with gold-plated justice.
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