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Debra Burlingame appeared on Fox today to react to the Obama administration’s reversal on trying captured terrorists in military tribunals. Burlingame blasted Attorney General Eric Holder as a “disgrace,” says the administration has been “incredibly dishonest” with the 9-11 families, and blasted Holder’s behavior toward the families of 9-11 victims. She also adds that she believes Holder has invited leftwing groups to attack the tribunals, and that he wants the tribunals to fail. Rep. Peter King (R-NY) adds that if Holder really feels so strongly against trying terrorists in military tribunals, he should resign. Burlingame’s brother, American Airlines pilot Charles...

The appointment of a well-respected ex-Navy lawyer to oversee war-crime trials is being seen in military legal circles as a sign the Obama administration might reverse its decision to bring Khalid Shaikh Mohammed to New York for a civilian trial. At the same time, a pending speedy-trial ruling in a second terror case in New York could give Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. an escape route through which he could switch the trial of Shaikh Mohammed (KSM) from federal court back to a military system set up by former President George W. Bush and Congress. In February, the White...

“The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.” Unknown Since taking office over a year ago, President Obama has declared war on just about everyone except for our real enemies. He has gone after the CIA and their terrorist interrogation policies, the Cambridge police, the Bush Administration, the Health Care System, Guantanamo, the military, the Supreme Court, the Bush Administration, the banks, highly paid corporate executives, the economy, the Bush Administration, the town-hall-tea-party crowd and, therefore, the average American citizen and, finally, the Bush Administration. We are pummeled with despair at every turn of the TV...

Trying the 9/11 co-conspirators, including Kahlid Sheikh Mohammed, in federal, civilian court just got a bit harder. Support for trying these men in New York City has been dwindling, and some reports indicate the site has been scrapped, though the Administration contends NYC is still a viable option. Now legislation has resurfaced that would shut off funding for civilian trials altogether, only this time it has Democratic support. Sens. Jim Webb, D-VA, and Blanche Lincoln, D-AR, have joined the fight to deny the funds, making it harder for such trials to continue. On Tuesday, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC, an Army...

Does the Center for American Progress want to alienate New York while the Obama-Pelosi progressive legislative agenda drowns in popular discontent? Ken Gude, an associate director at CAP for its International Rights and Responsibility Program, tells Politico that he assumed New Yorkers were braver than to complain about the monumental cost and disruption a criminal trial of 9/11 conspirators would heap onto a city that has already bled both money and blood in the war on terror (via Jonah Goldberg at The Corner): In his State of the Union address, Obama complained broadly about GOP fear-mongering, but he did not...

Fifty-one percent (51%) of U.S. voters oppose the Obama administration’s decision to try the confessed chief planner of the 9/11 attacks and other suspected terrorists in a civilian court in New York City. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 29% of voters favor the president’s decision not to try the suspects by military tribunal at the Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba where they are now imprisoned. Nineteen percent (19%) are not sure whether it was the right decision or not. Only 30% of Americans said suspected terrorists should have access to U.S. courts, while 54% favored...

Five hundred more people died on September 11, 2001, than died on December 7, 1941. The earlier attack was against a military installation, the later attack was primarily against civilians. One was in a distant territory, the other was in the homeland, against what had been our first national capital. One was an act of war, and led to the atomic bombing of our enemy. The other has now been classified a crime, and has led to a civilian trial. And, most likely, an acquittal. In a display of stunning disregard for national interest, the Obama Administration announced last week...