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On Monday, as Attorney General Eric Holder stood at the podium at the Justice Department headquarters in Washington to announce that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 terrorists would be tried by military commissions at Guantanamo, he still insisted that he'd much prefer to try them in civilian courts. The guy just doesn't get it -- and because he doesn't, he should resign forthwith. Almost a year-and-a-half ago, when he announced at the same podium that he'd decided to try KSM and four of his co-conspirators in lower Manhattan, Holder did so with complete disregard for the security and day-to-day-activities...

Well, the bubble of Obama supremacy has finally exploded in all our faces and is now lying in tatters, with little giblets of its former hot-air glory spread from here to kingdom come. The candidate who played his "Peace is just an Obama speech away" tune to the easily bamboozled left has just been dealt the final blow that crashed the big, fat hot air balloon. The very first test case was just last week: a former Gitmo detainee, brought to NYC to be tried as a civilian with all the rights of a genuine American citizen, was found guilty...

They’re back . . . You know, those civilian trials once planned for chief terrorist Khalid Sheik Mohammed & Co. in Manhattan — before Team Obama was mugged by reality. Well, they’re “not off the table,” Attorney General Eric Holder said last week, even though Obama aides said just a few months ago that they were. It’s worrisome news for New Yorkers, who’d face big security challenges — and costs. More troubling, though: The AG’s words are part of a pattern of flip-flops, backtracks and confusion over key national-security issues — a full 15 months after President Obama took office....

Megyn Kelly believes Holder is entitled to have civilian trials for GITMO detainees. This is flat WRONG. While those detained as enemy combatants are entitled to the writ of habeas corpus to contest their designation as "enemy combatants" in civilian courts per 5/4 SC vote in Boumediene v. Bush, they are to be tried under the Military Commissions Act of 2006, so long as the procedures are analogous to the rules applicable to courts-martial under the Uniform Code of Military Justice per 5/3 vote in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (with CJ Roberts not participating).

The DUmmies are in a state of great despair over another apparent betrayal by The One. It looks like there will be NO civilian trials for terrorists and this has plunged the DUmmies into the depths of depression as you can see in this DUmmie THREAD, "WH Leaning towards MILITARY TRIALS for 9/11 Suspects." Oh boo-hoo-hoo! Let us now break out our hankies and watch the DUmmies weep over another backstab by Obama in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your correspondent, still loving his new FREE Compaq Presario laptop, is in the [barackets]: WH Leaning towards MILITARY TRIALS...

WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden on today belittled Dick Cheney's criticism of the Obama administration's commitment to fighting terrorism as either "misinformed or he is misinforming" and said the Iraq war wasn't worth it because of "the horrible price" paid. The former vice president fired back gently at his successor, saying, "I guess I shouldn't be surprised by my friend Joe Biden." Cheney also said that he disagreed with decisions by Bush officials to place shoe bomber Richard Reid on trial in civilian court and to release terrorism suspects from the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The...

If Team Obama is so keen on trying Khalid Sheik Mohammed and other terrorists in civilian court, it needs to remember that criminals have rights. Such as the right not to have the verdict and sentence publicly proclaimed before trial by the nation's top officials. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs declared last week that 9/11 kingpin KSM "is going to meet justice, and he's going to meet his maker and he's likely to be executed for the heinous crimes that he committed." And President Obama himself said something similar last November, declaring of KSM: "I don't think that it will...

Among other things, Morris Davis, retired United States Air Force Colonel, is an expert on military commissions. He served as Chief Prosecutor for the Guantanamo military commissions. He resigned from the position and retired from active duty last year and took a job with the Congressional Research Office (CRO) running the Foreign Affairs, Defense and Trade Division. Last month Davis wrote an op-ed for the WSJ where he criticized the Administration's decision to try some detainees via military commissions and others in civilian courts . Davis wrote: "The administration must choose. Either federal courts or military commissions, but not both,...