The Obama/Holder contention that the civilian trial of KSM and other selected Gitmo detainees is to ‘showcase’ the US system of Justice is entirely false. 180 degrees false.
Consider: KSM gets the civilian trial that he has been promised. His lawyers make all the pre-trial motions for ‘dismissal’ on the grounds that we have discussed. KSM gets convicted anyway (I believe that this is what will happend). KSM’s lawyers appeal all the way to the USSC in a process that takes a decade to playout. If he wins the appeal, nobody will remember or care (no positive demonstration of Justice to the world). If he loses, we execute him to the howls of the world. “The World” is very selective in its outrage when it comes to the US.
Somebody show me just how we are supposed to come off looking good in this thing?
KSM should have gotten a quick military trial where classified evidence could have been used. If found guilty, he could have appealed to the USSC who would have heard the procedural arguments. Then a quick sentence if a guilty verdict is upheld. Swift justice.
Oh there’d be the usual complaints. But there wouldn’t be as much time for the complaints to fester.
Your move messiah.