Heavily tortured Guantanamo detainee Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was supposed to be the most “slam dunk” case the Obama Administration had to present to the civilian courts. He was, after all, the confessed “mastermind” behind the September 11 attacks.
But underscoring the administration’s newfound faith in sham trials as a substitute for actual trials, the White House has reversed its decision and is now planning to try Mohammed at Guantanamo Bay, in a military tribunal.
Apparently averse to abandoning the pretense that they are in favor of something resembling fair trials, however, Attorney General Eric Holder blamed Congress for the president’s decision, saying that it “couldn’t allow a civilian trial to be delayed while working to repeal congressional restrictions.”
His sudden interest in a speedy trial at the expense of a fair trial is susprising, because Mohammed has been in custody since 2003 and charged since February 2008 without seeing the inside of a courtroom, and it never seemed to bother the administration before today.
1- This is a political show telling people that Obama is though on “terrorist or terrorism” while he starts another war where terrorism is at large helping rebels in Libya, this is when justice department caving to US militarism regime.., forgetting about a point that this man been tortured for years whereby he have admitted to anything and everything that they have documented as his been telling them the truth.
2- My question is.., despite the fact this man is the “master mind” behind the 9/11 that his been the right hand of Osama and whatever that his been accused for.., where is the justice for those who ordered the killings of innocent Iraqis.., where is the justice for those whom were behind Abu Gharib torture chamber in Iraq.., why Donald Rumsfeled is not on trial.., or for that matter why is George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are not on trial.., or why Tony Blair is not in prison at international court for war crime defending himself. Although the story seams to be a scenario where Obama is trying to tell the world that US is not about nor it will continue what George W. Bush idea was.., but he himself have started another war and he himself been lying to people for things that he promised the people.., so the “democracy”.., one that Obama and Hillary Clinton are representing has its own way of telling the “truth” fooling its people by not telling the truth.
Jamal my friend, none of the Repub perps is on trial because they were never going to be put on trial by über sleaze, "look forward not back" Obama. Obama was so deeply and darkly NOT what he presented himself to be when he campaigned, that it has taken him this long to fully emerge from the darkness. From the moment of his inauguration he has hit the ground lying. I just loved it when he said that AG Holder would be "independent", and would decide "independently" about Justice Dept prosecutions. Riiiiight!
The Obama administration has outdone the Bush Cabal in the matter of lying. Who would have believed it possible? They are as brazen as the Bushies, but more "nuanced" (sophisticated?, clever?), but then again I think the Bushies enjoyed in-your-face brazen so much that they chose not to "hide" it behind nuance.
And that Holder guy, with his Boston Blackie mustache? Is it just me, just some kind of prejudice on my part, or do others see in him something that just shouts out "Sleaze!"? Put Obama and Holder in the same sentence and I just hear "Sleaze Brothers".
Maybe it's just me.
Well well…. Looks like BOB, aka Barak Obama Bush ( with props to the Twin Peaks character ) is gladly goose stepping to his predecessors tune. Pure unadulterated evil.
Reverses = LIED about it.
Wow! So very mighty of our Constitutional Law Professor Imperial President. We should be so very proud of him. Just think, he'll be giving the fourth term of Bush's reign of terror. His new campaign slogan should be "hope and change you can believe in…this time, I really mean it."
The public trial of KSM was never going to happen.
A public trial for KSM was always ***politically*** impossible, because "the defendant" — IN A CIVILIAN TRIAL — would be empowered by "the rights to a fair trial" to robustly present his case. The US and Zionist forces cannot allow KSM to make his case in public. It would be damning to both US and Zionist interests. KSM has a tale to tell that the American public (and the world at large) must not be allowed to see.
The public trial of KSM was never going to happen.
A public trial for KSM was always ***politically*** impossible, because "the defendant" — IN A CIVILIAN TRIAL — would be empowered by "the rights to a fair trial" to robustly present his case. The US and Zionist forces cannot allow KSM to make his case in public. It would be damning to both US and Zionist interests. KSM has a tale to tell that the American public (and the world at large) must not, and will not, be allowed to see.
Jason,
A little quibble. Why, in the title to this piece, do you use the term "Detainee" rather than the more pointed, Khaled Sheik Mohammad, or KSM for short? KSM is number three in the al Quaeda pantheon. Calling him a "detainee" is like calling the Speaker of the House a govt employee.
Just wondering.
No need for words, this picture says it all. Good luck with your reelection bro and if you get it, the American public deserve all that comes to them.
What can we do? We are powerless as citizens of the United States.