Instead of Putting Alleged Terrorists On Trial, Conservatives Want To Put Holder And Obama On Trial

[Black Talk Radio Network™]

Anyone with a grasp of the political rancor and subterfuge coming out of Washington could predict the Conservatives would make this about bashing the Obama administration and causing division instead of restoring the American judicial process. If bringing a man in chains to stand trial for alleged crimes amounts to weakening national security then whats the point of having a judicial system. We could just follow the model of concentration camps and exterminate perceived enemies. And we thought the Nazis were defeated after WWII.- Scotty Reid

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The Christian Science Monitor

No one knows for sure when (or even if) Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other accused 9/11 terrorists will enter a New York courtroom to face a judge and jury. For one thing, defense attorneys may want to shift the venue away from the place just blocks from where the World Trade Center’s twin towers fell in a murderous pile.

But for US Attorney General Eric Holder — front man in the Obama administration’s decision to bring alleged 9/11 “mastermind” Mohammed and the others from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to Manhattan — the trial has already begun, and he’s the one in the dock.

No one would disagree with Mr. Holder’s characterization of the September 2001 attacks by hijacked aircraft as “literally the crime of the century.”

But it took only about three nanoseconds for politicians and other partisans to begin weighing in on the subject, generally along these lines as expressed in the two national newspapers published in New York City:

The Wall Street Journal. “Eric Holder’s decision to move a trial on war crimes to American soil is morally confused, dangerous and political to a fault.”

The New York Times.“It was an enormous victory for the rule of law, a major milestone in Mr. Obama’s efforts to close the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and an important departure from [former president] Bush’s disregard for American courts and their proven ability to competently handle high-profile terror cases.” Read More

New York’s mayor, governor, and police commissioner all say they’re OK with Holder’s decision.