Why is Obama allowing five 9/11 terrorists to come to the New York, less than 1,000 yards from where their mass murders were committed, to attend a US civilian trial? They will get all the same constitutional protections as American citizens!! What if some bleeding heart judge doesn't like the fact that they had some water splashed in their faces and throws the confessions out or some portions of the evidence out? Why is my tax money paying for this? What was wrong with keeping them at Guantanamo Bay?
As this article points out, there are HUGE problems with this scenario:
- There are discovery requirements placed on prosecutors. In a civilian trial of the bombers of the trade center in 1993, prosecutors were required to turn large amounts of sensitive intelligence information over to the defense. Those exact documents were later found in an al-Qaeda hideout!
- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed , the mastermind, was captured in Pakistan. The intelligence that led to that raid is not known by the general public, but man oh man would al-Qaeda like to know how he was captured. They could learn that at trial.
- A liberal leaning judge could toss out the whole case and send the animals home. These men should have been strung up by their toenails but instead they are going to clean up, put on fancy suits, and have a top notch defense team at our expense.
The article points out that perhaps Obama wants the case to fail. Does that sound crazy? A little, but he just approved new rules for military tribunals that make obtaining convictions there much more difficult or impossible in some cases. Under the new rules, a defendant must have access to classified information used against him, which may lead to fewer prosecutions being sought if the prosecution does not want to damage the source of the information.
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