As a lawyer, O knows damn well what he is doing. It could all have been done intentionally. Just imagine KSM walking out of the courtroom a free terrorist giving America the bird.
IMO, the trial will go nowhere. They’ve already made some kind of deal that KSM will pead guilty and will not be executed.
0bama’s just looking out for his homies...
“When Nixon called Manson guilty 40 years ago, he was meddling in a state trial without having seen the evidence”
I never had much of a problem with what Nixon did. Theoretically at least, there is a difference between state and federal jurisdiction. And though Nixon had a lot of power, the trial was the state’s business and he had no direct influence over it. There’s the Bully Pulpit, and people listen when the prez talks, but they also listen when Bill O’Reilly or Billy Sunday talk. The difference, I guess, is that the president is The Man, but that only brings us back to the fact that Nixon was a federal Man and states have their own Man.
Obama, contrarywise, is intimately involved in the case. He ultimately made the call to try him, and his boys will do the trying. Totally different. It’s not so much that prosecutors and prosecutors’ bosses shouldn’t be sure of a conviction before they prosecute. But in the very least they should pretend criminal cases aren’t foregone conclusions. And in this case, it definitely shouldn’t be a foregone conclusion, since KSM has been deprived of every civil right I can think of. Of course, this is not your average criminal case. It’s a make-believe criminal case, wherein we treat the defendant different than all other defendants so that we can make it look real to people in the Middle East, or something.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
More Obamateur Hour [Andy McCarthy]
In a meeting with the press in China, President Obama said that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would be “convicted” and had “the death penalty applied to him” . . . and then said he wasn’t “pre-judging” the case. He made the second statement after it was pointed out to him — by NBC’s Chuck Todd — that the first statement would be taken as the president’s interfering in the trial process. Obama said that wasn’t his intention. I’m sure it wasn’t — he’s trying to contain the political damage caused by his decision — but that won’t matter. He has given the defense its first motion that the executive branch, indeed the president himself, is tainting the jury pool. Nice work.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OTcwYmFmMGFkMDliMmY5ZDY0MDdjMzZkZDRmNzYwZTI=