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Josh Gerstein / The Politico: Obama on terror trials: KSM will die

Americans who are troubled by the decision to send alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to New York for trial will feel better about it when he's put to death, President Barack Obama said Tuesday. [...]

Devlin Barrett / Associated Press: Holder: Don't fear trial of ‘coward’ 9/11 plotter

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder is defending his decision to put the professed Sept. 11 mastermind on trial in New York — and urging critics of the plan not to cower in the face of terrorists. [...]

Holder: I picked criminal court because … I’m really smart

Thanks to Scott Johnson at Power Line, we have Attorney General Eric Holder’s explanation of his decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in federal court rather than by military tribunals or commissions. Or do we? As Scott and Paul Mirengoff note, Eric Holder spends a lot of time in which he claims to explain the decision, and says nothing at all about how he reached it. [...]

Obama: Yeah, It's a Show Trial

[...] When Todd asked Obama if he was interfering in the trial process by declaring that Mohammed will be executed, Obama, a former constitutional law professor, insisted that he wasn't trying to dictate the result. [...]

[...] The Administration is only holding these civil trials in New York because his Justice Department assures him that these show trials are merely a formality. Obama has every intention of using the body of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as a podium from which he will no doubt trumpet his toughness in the war on terror, even as he finds a way to tuck his tail between his legs and scamper home from fighting al Qaeda and the Taliban without finishing the job. [...]

AG Eric "Nation Of Cowards" Holder Testifies About Civilian Trials For Terrorists

[...] But despite the Obama administration's attempts to get away from Bush's language, the war on terrorism is something that it can't get away from. Today we had Obama's top law enforcement official full embrace that ethos. If that tells us anything, it's that at critical moments of national security, the Obama administration will acknowledge this war, and it will verge into the national security realism that, while mismanaged and badly represented over the previous eight years, came to be a defining mark of the Bush worldview. [...]

Pat Dollard: Obama: KSM Will Be Convicted…I Think

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Protecting New York during terror trial

[...] And the cost of all this in dollars? Don't worry about it; think of it as government stimulus funds finally producing real jobs for a change.

There, I knew you'd feel better. [...]

Pat Dollard: Holder Calls Those Opposed To New York Civilian 9-11 Terror Trials “Cowards”

[...] “We need not cower in the face of this enemy,” Holder says. “Our institutions are strong, our infrastructure is sturdy, our resolve is firm, and our people are ready.” [...]

Obama decided 6 months ago to try KSM in New York

[...] Whoa, hold on a second, Governor? The White House told you six months ago that they were going to put your constituents through this? Gee, thanks for letting us know.

Here's a question: If the White House made up its mind about this six months ago--that would be in May, roughly four months after President Obama's inauguration--why did it wait until last week to make the announcement? That it was the week after an election is bound to raise suspicions that the timing was politically motivated. [...]

The Coming Jihadi Trial Disaster

Forget the media chin-stroking and head-scratching. The intentions behind the administration's decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his sideboys in Manhattan could not be clearer. Simply put, Obama wishes to Mirandize the entire murderous crew.

I'm using that term as shorthand for the liberal tendency -- not to say "compulsion" -- to treat all underdogs as victims, no matter the circumstances. In the liberal worldview, criminals are the ultimate underdogs, the romantic rebels with all the power of society ranged against them. The liberal role in this regard is to help even the odds, to protect and nurture the criminal so that his more "worthwhile" aspects -- whatever those might be -- aren't simply snuffed out by a vengeful society. This paradigm has governed the treatment of criminals since at least the 1950s. [...]

FACT: none of the prisoners in Club Gitmo have been Mirandized and in order to be placed in civilain courts inside the United States, the murderers will be set free. Now, if we go by the United States Constitution, no one not an American citizen is afforded American Constitutional Rights. So, who is going to claim Constitution on this one and who is going to claim the United States Constitution ever in this Nation?

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