Posted on 11/18/2009 6:29:38 PM PST by La Enchiladita
Edited on 11/18/2009 6:34:38 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four others must be, and will be, convicted, Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday in defense of his controversial recent decision to try the five alleged terrorists in a federal court in Manhattan.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
"I believe this decision is dangerous. I believe it's misguided. I believe it is unnecessary," said Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the panel's ranking Republican. "The correct way to try him is by military tribunal."
OMG, what did you do America?!
WE ARE BEING RUN BY COMPLETE IDIOTS!
Holder is an incompetent buffoon. It’s transparent that staging this publicity stunt in NYC is an effort to portray Obama as tough on terrorism/crime to bolster his failing reputation among large swaths of the public. Rather than doing his job as Attorney General he is running errands for the White House.
We need the Church lady
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-ByoJ7amKs
Oops... Stedman said they’re already guilty?
It’s mind-boggling.
Thank you for fixing it up at the top.
Holder will, of course, have to fall on his sword to protect Raila Odinga's pal and my putative POTUS.
What are these people really doing? This cannot be it.
This will just another version of... “if the turban doesn’t fit, you must acquit.”
Can wait to see the Santa outfit instead of the jailbird jumpsuit and screaming ‘Allah Snackbar” every 10 minutes. It will be very entertaining.
Oh, yes, he let the six convicted terrorist bombers out of prison.
Terrorist sympathy runs deep with these Black Liberation Theologians.
yitbos
Like that idiot black woman from Texas, it is the results of affirmative action run amuck.
“The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 26% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -14. That matches the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for this President (see trends).”
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Is that the dumbest thing you ever saw or what??!! A real clown, this guy. I wonder what Clarence Thomas is thinking but not saying.
Judge Napolitano says that under the Constitution, it is illegal to try the terrorists in a military court unless the US has declared war, which we have not done.
The judge is highly respected, so I ask one more question.
If the terrorists are never allowed to set foot on American soil, would that not make it legal to try them in a military court?
If so, then we are making a huge mistake in speaking of closing Gitmo and bringing them to the US.
And King Bloomberg approved.. They have all LIED and given LAME EXCUSES for this horrendous decision. WTH is really going on?
It's a "shout out" kind of thing, the hopey changey new diversity.
The AG seems at a loss for an explanation, offering a flimsy rationale at best. It smacks of agenda.
In 1942, the Supreme Court took up the case of Ex Parte Quirin, which pondered whether President Franklin Roosevelt—our most left-wing president until now—could lawfully and constitutionally order that a group of Nazi saboteurs captured on U.S. soil be tried by military commissions.
The unanimous justices pointed to Article 1, Section 8, Clause 10, and noted that Congress in 1806 had passed a law that “imposed the death penalty on alien spies ‘according to the law and the usage of nations, by sentence of a general court martial.’” This 1806 law, they observed, was based on a prior law enacted by the Continental Congress on Aug. 21, 1776 -- hardly a month after approval of the Declaration of Independence.
yitbos
A trial of the CIA and Bush Administration.
yitbos
Nope....Holder is a SH*T faced tool....if I say anymore I’ll get banned!
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