[bestintxas]

Why have a show trial then if the accused is already condemned?

Thbis is stupidity.

Any lawyers out there with comment?

[Carling]

I'm not a lawyer, but common sense tells me that an appeal can be constructed after the US held KSM for nearly 8 years and interrogated him w/out reading him his Miranda rights or giving him the option of having a lawyer before speaking to authorities. If this is being treated as a criminal matter, and not an act of war, are the rules and procedures of criminal law being suspended? Where is that allowable in our system?

I want KSM to fry, and I hope he goes in the worst way imaginable, but unless I'm incorrect, he seems to have an airtight defense to at least have all of the information that he gave up thrown out of court. The easy answer would be to try him in a military tribunal, where this wouldn't matter, but nothing is ever easy with the idiots running the show now.