Posted on 11/25/2009 2:43:40 AM PST by Sergeant Tim
Syndicated talk-radio host Mark Levin spoke with former Assistant United States Attorney Andrew McCarthy this evening about AG Eric Holder's decision to prosecute 9/11’s conspirators, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four lieutenants, in federal court a mere 6 blocks from Ground Zero.
"The Cole bombing did not prompt a military war against al-Qaeda. It eventually resulted in a civilian indictment that is still pending. The Pentagon is the ultimate military target, and the attack against it spurred both the war we are now fighting and the implementation of military commissions to try jihadist war criminals. Yet, Holder has decided to give KSM & Co. the protections of a civilian trial rather than the rigors of a military hearing. Given that humanitarian law has for decades strived to civilize warfare by protecting civilians, it is perverse to swaddle mass murderers in full Bill of Rights protections while those who strike military assets get second-tier due process. But the point here is that Comey and Goldsmith are purporting to defend “Holder’s reasonable decision.” How reasonable can Holder’s decision be if his defenders must substitute their own suppositions for his, which, as they admit, cannot withstand scrutiny."
Mark prefaced their discussion with today's report that three Navy SEALs are being prosecuted for bloodying the lip of a captured terrorist who had murdered four Americans in April 2004 outside of Fallujah, Iraq:
A fuller report and audio from today's 911NeverForget.Us press conference is here.
Come join us in lower Manhattan, in Foley Square, across the street from the federal courthouse at noon, Saturday, December 5, 2009. Regardless of whether you can be there in person or not, you can be there is spirit by adding your name to the more than 120,000 people who have co-signed our letter to President Obama.
Debra Burlingame addresses those gathered, flanked by Andrew McCarthy and Rep. Peter King
Ping!
Not only will the trial provide high-dollar legal counsel the opportunity to charge taxpayers for an unprecedented amount while they work the KSM trial and its satellites, but the appeals process will unavoidably generate an incredible revenue stream.
Just think of it as part of the bailout targeted to the legal profession.
The other day on Fox “the Panel” were discussing the trial and the terrorists vow to turn it into a soapbox, and they were deliberating whether or not any of it would get out to the public. I was about screaming at them because they had just broadcast a statement from one of the terrorists scumbag lawyers who went on an anti-American rant full of typical Islamic propaganda.
During WWII, the trial of Quirin et al was conducted with nearly all of it done in secret. I read recently that newspapermen with security clearances (including Punch Salzberger of the NY Times) were allowed to observe and their reports were screened for release. Gee, you’d think during 1942 the polls indicated we were at war. 50 days after capture, 6 of the 8 were hung by the neck until dead (the saboteurs, not the reporters but, had they leaked war secrets, FDR would have hung them also).
Anyone who watches “The Panel” deserves it. I could wholesale all of them for a dollar, and consider myself a thief.
AG Eric Holder's clients (the REAL reason for the transfer – to free them):
• Saad Al Qahtani
• Mohammed Zahrani
• Achraf Salim ("Sultan") Abdessalam
• Abdul Rahman Abdul Abu Ghityh Sulayman
• Musaab Omar Al Madhwani
• Jawad Jabbar Sadkhan (Al Sahlani)
• Majid Khan
“Corruptocrat AG Eric Holder’s conflicted DOJ“
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same,
or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children
and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
President Ronald Reagan
“The New Media Journal | Attorney General Holder's Advisers Have Conflicts on Detainee Cases“
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