President Barack Obama's administration had announced it would try self-confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other accused at a New York courthouse just steps from where the World Trade Center once stood.
But the plan for the "trial of the century" met a backlash from Republican lawmakers who have introduced legislation to require a military trial, throwing a challenge to Obama months ahead of mid-term elections in November.
Obama made bringing Sheikh Mohammed to a civilian trial a centerpiece of a broader plan to end what he saw as serious abuses of law in the time of his predecessor George W. Bush and his powerful vice president Dick Cheney.
"What will it be Mr. President?" the American Civil Liberties Union asked in a full-page advertisement in The New York Times where a portrait of Obama gradually morphs into Bush. "Change or more of the Same?"
ACLU = Liberal wackos
ReplyDeleteSure guys let make another martyr for the terrorists in a city that the war crime was committed.
Didn't they try the original group, that tried to blow up the WTC, in New York City?
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ReplyDeleteYes they did. And they also found that the ACLU atty representing one of the terrorists was passing along information from her client and from discovery to other terrorist.
How will we know when our government is lying if we don't support the Innocent until proven guilty principle?
ReplyDeleteWhy wouldn't we try the suspects in open court?
What happened to America?