In Reversal, Obama Advisers to Recommend Military Tribunals for 9/11 Plotters

fox news ^ | 3/5/2010 | fox news

[tobyhill]

Top advisers to President Obama are close to a decision recommending that the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks be prosecuted in a military tribunal, The Washington Post reported Friday, citing unnamed administration officials.

According to the report, the president's advisors have grown increasingly wary of bipartisan opposition to the planned civilian federal trial in New York City, mere blocks from where nearly 3,000 Americans were killed in the spectacular attack on the World Trade Center.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and prominent state Democrats, who initially embraced Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other conspirators in Manhattan, have since reversed their support for the trial.

[InterceptPoint]

When I was a kid we would call this sort of reversal "eating crow".

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[Erik Latranyi]

I don’t believe it until KSM is standing in front of the military tribunal.

[pepsionice]

The story says only that they are considering this. If it took them four months (from Holder’s moment of decision) to get this far...you have to wonder about the logic in their minds. This is the kind of announcement that when it comes...it’ll be at 5PM on a Friday...with the President on a international holiday somewhere.

[Vaquero]

if it wasnt so pathetic it would be hilarious

[DannyTN]

ROFLMAO

That picture says it all.

[43north]

C’mon: BUSH’S FAULT!

[wiggen]

Fact is Obama is an idiot. I in know way believe it was all holders idea. This conversation should never have been had in the first place.

[wiggen]

umm...in No way. its too early to be angry

[newnhdad]

I think were going to find out exactly how big a failure this guy is in November.
America’s first and hopefully only affirmative action president.

[pnut22]

The ACLU is already screaming foul.

[MinuteGal]

"The Obama administration views civilian trials for terrorists as an important demonstration of the U. S. commitment to the rule of law."

What about the rule of WAR, you peacenik appeaser. It trumps everything else if this country is to survive in a world full of insane fanatics.

The only things your policies demonstrate are weakness and stupidity. And who are you trying to impress around the world with your lip-service to the rule of law! Our allies? Our enemies? They laugh at you.

If you're so committed to the rule of law, Rangel, Gaithner, the late Murtha and others in the corrupt Democrat reign of terror in DC would have been forcibly thrown out of the capital long ago.

Obama is not only a hypocrite, but a genuine psychiatric case who will not defend and protect our country as is his constitutional duty.

Leni

[FBD]

surprise, surprise...

[LibLieSlayer]

Bush was correct in everything obama said was wrong... where Bush screwed up is on the things that obama thought Bush got right.

LLS

[Recon Dad]

Even the left has to look at these dumb-asses and ask themselves what have we got ourselves in to.

I truly believe these folks are evil, but the their redeeming virtue is.........they are so stupid.

[Liberty Ship]

I wonder. Have the votes on health care changed for any of the effected representatives? Could the threat of making a particular state or district a bull’s eye for terrorism and the victim of huge security expenses been used to twist arms for votes on health care?

[Sacajaweau]

Let's guess that he will be convicted in a Military Tribunal and given the death penalty. Would he be executed?? The President would have to sign the order. Would he??

None of these terrorists will ever get the death penalty.

[TomGuy]

Obama is learning that being president is harder than campaigning to be president.

Many campaign promises are more difficult to fulfill in the real world.

[TomGuy]

The ACLU is already screaming foul.

Foul? or Fowl?

[bgill]

Obama is learning that being president is harder than campaigning to be president.

It's time for another vacation.