Attorney General: White House May Abandon KSM Civilian Trial
Officials Say Obama Taking Direct Role Following Criticism
In an interview given yesterday to the Washington Post, Attorney General Eric Holder suggested that the White House might abandon giving Khalid Sheikh Mohammed a civilian trial entirely, though he insisted that it was not his personal preference to do so.
Holder insisted that in practice “I’m not sure the location or even the forum is as important as what the world sees in that proceeding.” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was initially set to face a civilian trial in New York City.
President Obama originally told Holder to choose the site of the trial, but is reportedly planning to take a direct role now, after the New York City trial has proven incredibly unpopular.
Congress has even threatened to block funding for the trial, though the administration insists Obama’s sudden involvement in the location and possibly the nature of the trial has nothing to do with politics, and is a “national security” issue.
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MvGuy
February 12th, 2010 at 10:48 pm
Is there ANYTHING on which the republicans have NOT rolled Pres. "O" …????????????????
Anti_Govt_Rebel
February 13th, 2010 at 2:35 am
"We are a nation of laws, not of men".
The government's constantly changing its mind on how it intends to carry out justice in this case, depending on the political winds, shows that the above slogan no longer applies in the United States. The federal government is rapidly deconstructing our constitutional republic and replacing it with tyranny.
Nelson_2008
February 13th, 2010 at 6:04 am
The 9/11 attacks were an intricate, high-tech, false-flag job, carried out by state-sponsored actors with essentially unlimited resources at their disposal, i.e., Mossad, with the help of some high level traitors in the U.S. government.
In light of this, the subsequent cover-up effort should be expected to be just as intricate, and as we've abundantly seen, it is. The whole "civilian trial" thing is just another psyop: They appear to push for an open trial (see we have nothing to hide), publicly proclaim to have plenty of evidence necessary for conviction…and then, after some carefully orchestrated "criticism", they reverse themselves due to e.g., "security concerns" blah-blah-blah.
It would almost be laughable if it wasn't so utterly pathetic.
Of course they'll never willingly expose themselves to the risk of having the 9/11 fraud come apart in an open courtroom, where they may not be able to micro-manage everything to the extent necessary to convict their patsy.
reality hurts
February 13th, 2010 at 6:43 am
O = W
What a failure.
pwi
February 13th, 2010 at 10:47 am
Including most of the recent elections. Obama will figure some trick or slight of hand to pass his healthcare plan past the Republicans.
pwi
February 13th, 2010 at 10:48 am
But Obama is so smart.
Joao Alfaiate
February 13th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
A trial in NYC is unwanted, as is a trial in any open forum in which the defendants have the freedom to defend themselves.
The reason for that is simple: The defendants are going to testify that a major part of their motivation for attacking the United States is our relationship with the state of Israel. Israel's friends in the US do not want that. They do not want Americans to know that our own foreign policy has put us in the terrorist cross hairs.
Obama, being weak, weak, weak (witness his change of heart over Israeli settlements), will accommodate Israel's friends in this country.
MvGuy
February 13th, 2010 at 3:03 pm
Yes, that was "our" HOPE.. The hope that someone that made their success by education would
be inclined to seek some alternative to out and out warfare….against the "graveyard of empires".
Especially with America worse than broke, perilously drowning in red ink and bad press………
What we "missed' … the Rahm factor…… A truly enlightened aware person should, would have
worried that if 911 was not as advertised, the same type of thing would be necessary to maintain
the safety of those brave Americans [and dual citizens] that brought us the "New Pearl Harbor"
as the "defining moment" on the road to "full spectrum dominence". Yes, they would need to be
protected from any possible witch hunt to uncover the exact provenance of that defining event.
And too keep the the attention of the electorate focused on "our" enemies.. Islam, Iran and any
thing which could divert funding away from the "project" for the new century… But what was the
alternative…??? Lieberman McCain..?? How would that have been..??? Better..??? I don't
think so…..
Nelson_2008
February 13th, 2010 at 4:53 pm
Voting for *any* "establishment" candidate such as Obama, in this day and age, is tantamount to a criminal act. (And it was obvious beforehand that Obama was the Establishment's top candidate).
The only morally proper courses of action would have been: (1) vote for a non-establishment third party, e.g., Cynthia McKinney, Ralph Nader, etc.; (2) don't vote.
I don't know why it's so difficult for so many people to see this.
MvGuy
February 13th, 2010 at 5:41 pm
Joao…… You seem 2B the only one so far to pay homage to the official legend…….
If only we could get the tapes of the pentagon strike from the hundreds of cameras on duty..
If they were only patsies, who cares what they say….. Many of the most important question aren't asked……..Forget about answers……… Is America forever changed ..?? Before you answer, think about the war on drugs…. Didn't it pave the way for the current policies we see… Didn't the cops go around trying to buy drugs.?? Do the cops that taz people who are lying helplessly hand cuffed on the ground ever get charged with assualt..?? Didn't the cops start sellin the drugs to improve the "appearance" of their sting. Hasn't the double standard been around all along..?? One law for us, another for them..?? Where DOES that nasty terrorism come from…?? HHMMM there must be a point when people find whats happenin so intolerable, they are willing to DIE to work some change.. Do you think that the founding fathers wouldov imagined cops in air conditioned "cruisers" giving farmers tickets for no mudflaps..?? That our guardians would evolve into the predators that they have become..?? And this is the model that we are werkin to spread worldwide.. The secular enforcer of whatever the money wants… They call it capitalism, but its the new feudalism… If ya got enough money you can buy one of the franchises… They got some nice W. African estates with rare earth futures… I'm afraid the oil properties are spoken for….. Lithium is hot these days…
No Iconoclasts here……..!!!
MvGuy
February 13th, 2010 at 7:34 pm
PS If anyone wants to understand WHY the trial is such a hot potato.. Check out the accusation by attorney Scot Horton… that the three Guantamino "suicides" in 2006 were actually murders see.. http://doiop.com/murderINC Scot Horton seems to have gotten the guards to talk..!! BUT the real
question is not who or how, but WHY ..?? And when you think about it, there are not too many answers
Top opf MY list is…they knew something that was very dangerous for someone or something very powerful, or to quote the web fairy
"
Think of O.J. Simpson. Think of Ken Lay. Think of Kobe Bryant. Think of other rich criminals, criminals with so much money they can evade justice. Rich criminals can hire lawyers and accountants and doctors and even forensic experts to prove they are innocent even when they are guilty. Think of Kobe Bryant's victim. His money against her lack of it. In the end guilt or innocence didn't matter, only his money mattered. Money wins so Kobe wins, so there isn't even a trial. Now multiply his money by a million. Now imagine a criminal with all the resources of the federal government to protect him.
Imagine you were the anthrax terrorist but too powerful for even the FBI to charge, too powerful to even investigate. Imagine your coconspirators were too secret and protected for law enforcement to even question. Imagine if, instead of hiring forensic experts to try to introduce doubt into any case against you, you could marshal all the scientists of the US germ warfare programs, all the agents of the FBI, and assign them to pin your crimes on someone else. Imagine that the FBI isn't allowed to consider what enemy the targets had in common, that they can't demand the CIA or the DOD tell them who might have produced the anthrax, that they can't even ask who had the authority to order it sent, and that they can't investigate the prime suspect. . " …………………………………….See the whole story here: http://www.newsgarden.org/columns/anthrax/anthrax…
1010
February 13th, 2010 at 8:27 pm
why try someone who been water borad 80 times. he has no brain cells left due to no oxygen to the brain
MvGuy
February 13th, 2010 at 9:08 pm
From Times Online
April 20, 2009
September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 'waterboarded 183 times'
Times Online
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Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, alleged September 11 mastermind
(AP)
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed
CIA interrogators used the controverisal waterboarding technique 183 times on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind behind the September 11, 2001, attacks and 83 times on another al-Qaeda suspect, according to The New York Times.
A 2005 Justice
mrraven
February 13th, 2010 at 10:08 pm
Maybe he wouldn't be so easily "rolled" if he has some convictions he stood up for rather than being an utter tool of the military industrial complex.
mrraven
February 13th, 2010 at 10:12 pm
What's interesting is I voted for Nader or Leonard Peltier since 1996 butI got fooled into voting for Obama due to his dinging of Hilary Clinton for voting for Bush's Iraq war, promising green jobs, promising to close Gitmo, etc. All lies of course and I should have known better knowing Obama's biggest campaign contributor was Goldman Sachs and his FISA cave vote during the campaign, but such is the power of the big lie even on a cynic like me.
Mea Culpa Cythia McKinney, I won't get fooled again, any Green or Ron Paul 2012.
tom mcguire
February 13th, 2010 at 3:47 pm
Our Government fears defense could claim there is no evidence the 911 attack was done by Osama Bin Laden, and their clients are not even involved even if they think they were. This would place the entire case dependent on a 911 investigation that has not even been done: it would also involve our foreign policy, and shaky alliance with Israel. There are so many lies involving the phony war on terror, and al Qaeda, our officials can no longer keep track.