Posted on 12/23/2009 3:09:49 AM PST by Scanian
There is no justifying the Obama administration's decision to grant a civilian trial to Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other 9/11 plotters who carried out the deadliest act of war ever committed on US soil. President Obama must not grant the worst of war criminals the same constitutional rights enjoyed by the nearly 3,000 US citizens they massacred on 9/11. If he won't reconsider, Congress must act.
Beginning in the Revolutionary War, it has been recognized throughout our history that wartime enemies aren't mere criminal defendants. When they commit provable war crimes, they're tried by military commission a process that permits them fewer rights than a civilian trial while shielding more national-defense information from disclosure to the enemy.
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guffaw
Stop the KSM trial: If prez won’t, Congress must
Surely you jest.
We have no leaders in our current Govrnment in any branch or political party. America is on a downward spiral
Getting Congress to do anything against “The Won” is next to impossible.
This has about as much chance as a snowball fight in hell.
This should be agenda item # 1 when Congress reconvenes in January. Simultaneously, Congress needs to have hearings on Major Hasan and prevent sending Gitmo prisoners to Illinois.
And if Congress won’t ... we must.
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