Posted on 01/31/2010 7:53:44 AM PST by La Lydia
Accused Sept. 11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be tried and convicted and is likely to be executed, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said on Sunday. Interviewed on CNN's "State of the Union," show, Gibbs said: "Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is going to meet justice and he's going to meet his maker. He will be brought to justice and he's likely to be executed for the heinous crimes he committed."
Gibbs did not confirm reports that the Obama administration has begun looking for places other than the heart of New York City to prosecute self-professed mastermind Mohammed and four accused co-conspirators in the face of fierce criticism tied to security and costs.
"We are talking with the authorities in New York. We understand their logistical concerns," Gibbs said. "We will work with them and come to a solution that we think will bring about justice."
Appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press," senior White House adviser David Axelrod said President Barack Obama still wanted Mohammed and the other Sept. 11 defendants to be tried in the U.S. justice system.
"The president believes we need to take into consideration what the local authorities are saying. But he also believes this: He believes that we ought to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and all others who are involved in terrorist acts to justice, swift and sure, in the American justice system."...
Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell, also on CNN, said the accused plotters should be tried by a military commission, preferably at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. He said Republicans would deny the administration the funding to mount a trial in New York and predicted that many Democrats would join them.
"Interrogate them, detain them and try them in a military commission offshore at Guantanamo," McConnell said....
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So I a way the terrorist are doing us a favor!
Obama and his crazies (Holder specifically) want show trials, clear and simple. They hate America, so let’s give others the chance to spew it in open court. Everyone who Barry wants to have tried in our court has already admitted their guilt. If you have admitted your guilt, the only thing left is sentencing. Why didn’t Bush take care of this before he left office? Very screwy.
Sounds like the outcome is predetermined by the White House.
Barry’s poll numbers are that bad, eh?
Remember when Nixon spoke about the Manson gang killings, and the huge stink that was made about him “convicting them before the trial”?
Exactly. If Obama/Gibbs are basically saing these people (!!) should be tried/convicted/executed before they are even tried....in American jurisprudence that statement alone would toss the case out.
So what's the point of the show trial? Especially when we already have the apparatus in place at Gitmo.
Fools, all of them. Liberalism is truly a mental disorder.
From what I gather, Bloomberg only learned of the decision to try KSM in NYC from the news. The phone call from Holder came a few hours later. The administration really did not bother to do any groundwork all.
It seems Bloomie’s mind was made up when NYPD Chief Ray Kelly presented his report on exactly what this trial would cost NYC in money, risk and inconvenience.
It’s all over. Now, no other community is going to submit to having this deadly farce enacted on it’s turf. Obama can’t impose this by force. His bubble is punctured, now nobody is afraid of his displeasure. This morning’s Sunday shows are predictably full of the usual moanings about “civility” and “bipartisanship”. Boehner and McConell seem to have grown a pair over the past year... We shall see.
“Likely to face execution?” Not if leftists like Gibbs are on the jury!
These and other comments by the incompetents in this administration have KSM convicted and sentence handed down. I think the admistration lackeys are instinctively correct in this statments however, most Americans would then ask Why go through the folly of a trial?The answer is because the administration have other goals in mind other than a conviction, which include possibly convicting Bush administration officials for their conduct during the WOT.
Also - couldnt these statements be considered prejudicial and, be argued that these terrorists cant get a fair trial in any jurisdiction in the US?
The Rahm Emanuel method of rule —never let a crisis go to waste— requires distractions, to prevent We The People from awakening to the massive usurpations of our sovereignty. The games the democrats are playing are designed to distract patriotic Americans while the democrats erase the Republic.
After we milked the last bit of info from him, he should have been taken to an undisclosed location and executed, then buried in another undisclosed location, or perhaps cremated and his ashes scattered in a remote, unidentified area of Saudi Arabia.
Now they’re talking about moving the trials to Western PA (Pittsburgh most likely) or Washington DC. Never mind the obvious danger to us all where these civilian trials are going to be held — just who is going to pay for the extra security? It already looks like the Obama administration is not going to authorize any expenditure or very little expenditure on security. But even if there will be federal monies, who is paying for this? Yup...we the taxpayers. A trial before a military tribunal would be a helluva lot cheaper and involve a lot less expense to already strapped states and local government entities.
This administration is not only incompetent; it is mentally ill.
“Now where are they going to go with this?”
I predict he’ll have a quick illness and die soon in prison, or he’ll commit “suicide”. Living, he is a continuing embarrassment to the administration.
The President speaks of our "values," but never of the "principles" underlying our judicial system. In this case, the AG would give a wartime enemy combatant the same constitutional rights as American citizens, including the right to what the Founders called "trial by a jury of his peers."
If "innocent until proven guilty," as a fundamental principle, has any validity, then how is it that the person responsible for "executing" the laws can speak, with certainty, of the guilt of the defendant and the outcome of such a trial without destroying the very basis of the constitutional justice system?
To undermine the immediate safety of citizens by bringing such a trial to the courts is one thing. To undermine the very judicial system itself is quite another.
“Sounds like the outcome is predetermined by the White House.”
They’d better hope they don’t get me on the jury, I’d vote not guilty just to stick it to Obama.
Where will they go with this?
Well, in the over-used jargon of the chattering class:
They will first “walk it back”, and then “pivot”.
Hate this crap-speech!
Only a leftie would think there’s propaganda value in having a show trial with a predetermined outcome! What sense does this make?
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