Yep:
Years after the circus-like trials of Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman and the 1993 World Trade Center bombers, Attorney General Eric Holder, acting for the president, has asked for a repeat performance. He is ordering trials in New York of five men who finally succeeded in the original plan to bring down those towers and, in the process, kill almost 3,000 civilians.
There is every reason to believe that in these trials the government may face even more substantial Sixth Amendment hurdles than it did in the original World Trade Center case — hurdles relating to the defendants’ rights to counsel, to subpoena witnesses, and to obtain access to classified information regarding the detention abroad of terrorists. Then there is their treatment while in detention and the names of states and state actors who assisted us in bringing to heel those who murder us here and abroad.
Do any of you pinhead liberals out there think we have KSM’s fingerprints on the written order stating “drive planes in to buildings”? When dealing with psychotic, mass murders you don’t get evidence like that – why do you think KSM was hiding in Pakistan while his minions were driving planes in to buildings? If KSM really believed in the cause, he’d have been one of the pilots…but, no, he wasn’t. He doesn’t really believe in the stated cause, and thus kept himself as far away from evidence as possible because he knew he was doing wrong.
Stalin was like that, too. So was Lenin. You think if we sifted through the Cuban state archives we’d find orders signed by Castro for all those murders? In Arafat’s private papers are there detailed instructions on how to torture and murder captive Jews? I feel pretty certain that the evidence we have on KSM is highly circumstantial and strongly based on the words of others, some of which will be hearsay and other bits will have been coerced. The basics of the trial are shot through with elements a determined and clever defense attorney can make hay with.
And, so, even if we get a conviction, the ultimate result will be to provide KSM a platform, put him back in the Islamist eye as a hero and the whole effort will be used to put the United States on trial and the global left – domestic and foreign – will be all over it.
Of all the terrible decisions made by the Obama Administration, this is the worst – and the one most likely to be paid for in blood, in the by and by.
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