I’m sorry, but I just can’t manage to follow your thinking. What has the one thing got to do with the other?
Our stupidity in putting KSM on trial in New York under civilian rules of evidence and discovery, is somehow about “openness”? Is that what you are trying to peddle?
I don’t think you will find takers here.
Follow my thinking? Rachid Hmami’s show, ‘Suaal Garii’ (‘Daring Question,’) brings openness and sunlight-disinfectant to the Middle East, but an open trial for KSM won’t bring openness and sunlight-disinfectant to the American Northeast? Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. If our civilian rules of evidence and discovery work for Mafia trials and drug cartel trials, then they’ll probably work for Islamic Jihadist trials. And if those rules don’t work, then maybe their failure will induce us to try to improve our judicial system by writing a few new rules. And if our civilian rules of evidence and discovery don’t work in the KSM trial, and we don’t learn and grow from the experience, then we deserve that which will likely follow.