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Defend America on Tuesday, December 22, 2009 3:06:39 PM
Congress Can Stop the KSM Trial
If the president will not reverse himself, Congress should.
By Michele Bachmann & Andrew C. McCarthy
There
is no justifying the Obama administration’s decision to grant a
civilian trial to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other 9/11 plotters
who carried out the deadliest act of war ever committed on U.S. soil.
The president must not grant the worst of war criminals the same
constitutional rights enjoyed by the nearly 3,000 U.S. citizens they
massacred on 9/11. If he won’t reconsider, Congress must act.
Beginning
in the Revolutionary War, it has been recognized throughout our history
that wartime enemies are not mere criminal defendants. When they commit
provable war crimes, they are tried by military commission, a process
that permits them fewer rights than a civilian trial while shielding
more national-defense information from disclosure to the enemy.
As
the Obama administration concedes, we are a nation at war. After the
9/11 atrocities, Congress overwhelmingly authorized the use of military
force. In 2006, at the urging of the Supreme Court, Congress put the
military-commission system originally ordered by President Bush on firm
legislative footing. The Obama administration not only acknowledges the
validity of this system, Attorney General Eric Holder has announced
that the bombers of the U.S.S.
Cole (who murdered 17
members of our Navy in October 2000) will be tried in it, even though
this attack is the subject of a pending civilian indictment.
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