Posted on 02/25/2010 5:52:10 PM PST by tobyhill
The Obama administration bluntly urged the Congress Thursday to steer clear of directing where terrorism suspects should be prosecuted, pushing back against efforts to require military rather than civilian trials.
A bipartisan group of senators has offered legislation aimed at forcing the administration to prosecute terrorism suspects, like the self-professed mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, in special military commission trials instead of traditional criminal courts.
Attorney General Eric Holder ordered Mohammed and four alleged co-conspirators to be tried in a criminal court in Manhattan. But concerns by some lawmakers about security costs and granting full legal rights to the suspects have forced administration officials to reconsider.
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America is in dire need of a massive enema to rid itself of the foul smelling filth clogging up the government in Washington DC. The corruption has seeped into every crack and corner of every government office. We need to rid ourselves of all incumbents and replace them with honest Americans who have no connections to the corrupt establishment.
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