“I think I can acknowledge the obvious,” well, no... you can't. or you never would of proposed it in the first place.
Posted on 01/30/2010 2:54:36 PM PST by neverdem
The Obama administration on Friday gave up on its plan to try the Sept. 11 plotters in Lower Manhattan, bowing to almost unanimous pressure from New York officials and business leaders to move the terrorism trial elsewhere.
“I think I can acknowledge the obvious,” an administration official said. “We’re considering other options.”
The reversal on whether to try the alleged 9/11 terrorists blocks from the former World Trade Center site seemed to come suddenly this week, after Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg abandoned his strong support for the plan and said the cost and disruption would be too great.
But behind the brave face that many New Yorkers had put on for weeks, resistance had been gathering steam.
After a dinner in New York on Dec. 14, Steven Spinola, president of the Real Estate Board of New York, pulled aside David Axelrod, President Obama’s closest adviser, to convey an urgent plea: move the 9/11 trial out of Manhattan.
More recently, in a series of presentations to business leaders, local elected officials and community representatives of Chinatown, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly laid out his plan for securing the trial: blanketing a swath of Lower Manhattan with police checkpoints, vehicle searches, rooftop snipers and canine patrols.
“They were not received well,” said one city official.
And on Tuesday, in a meeting Mr. Bloomberg had with at least two dozen federal judges on the eighth floor of their Manhattan courthouse, one judge raised the question of security. The mayor, according to several people present, said he was sure the courthouse could be made safe, but that it would be costly and difficult.
The next day, the mayor, who back in November had hailed the idea of trying Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other accused Sept. 11 plotters in the heart of downtown Manhattan,...
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The IinC (Idiot in Chief) IOTUS (Idiot Of The United States) should be impeached for thinking about it. The effed up second-guessers/naysayers are very late to this party.
Thanks for the link.
Jihad continues apace.
Resign and take Mayor Bloomers with him.
I meant to include you in my reply, prairiebreeze. A very appropriate and timely link. BTTT!
Why would an (individual) “man caused disaster” have anything to do with other man caused disasters? What’s the worry? What’s the problem?
Jihad continues apace.
IDIOTS
(who will protect us from our protectors?)
Progressives/liberals/criminals...once again obfuscating the issues...controlling the language.
The man-boy needs to go. Go back and organize a community. IDIOT.
We loyal Americans abolutely must mount a campaign to get the terrorist trials back into a miliary tribunal court.
Phone and e-mail your congressional delegation daily.
Thanks for the link! I’m in the Bronx. I’ve heard nothing about it.
Top Obama Think Tank: New Yorkers Are Sissies Over 9/11 Trial Concerns
(details of incompetent decisions since Obama was electd)
The list is getting longer and the American Public will not stand for incompetence.
Obama’s leftist ideological chickens are coming home to roost as one of his mentors was wont to say.
Thanks for the link. The GOP is not alone as the only stupid party. The rats are truly clueless about economics.
“I think I can acknowledge the obvious,” well, no... you can't. or you never would of proposed it in the first place.
You’re welcome
Obama is an idiot. I don’t care what this dumbass does anymore. His agenda is lost and his purpose is stupid. America is a free nation and the shackles of the asswipe are made of marxists plastic that quickly melts under heat.
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