9/11

    NY-GOV David Paterson Slams Terror Trials Decision

    By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  November 17th at 04:30 PM  | 

    Add New York Governor David Paterson – surely, no right-winger – to the list of critics of trying Khalid Sheikh Muhammad in Manhattan, and he adds an additional concern, that the expense and additional security will interfere with the endlessly-delayed plans to rebuild on the Ground Zero site: “This is not a decision that I would have made. I think terrorism isn’t just attack, it’s | Read More »

    Polls Show Public Not Buying The Case For Terror Trials

    By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  November 17th at 02:26 PM  | 

    Here in New York, the Obama Administration’s decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other Al Qaeda terrorists in the civilian justice system in downtown Manhattan has garnered plenty of well-earned criticism, including from New York’s leading anti-terrorism experts like Rudy Giuliani, Michael Mukasey (who handled the blind sheikh trial as a district judge before becoming President Bush’s third Attorney General) and Andrew McCarthy (who | Read More »

    Where I Was On September 11

    By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  September 11th at 08:45 AM  | 

    Until September 11, 2001, I worked in the World Trade Center, halfway up Tower One. I wasn’t doing political blogging at the time, but was writing “the Baseball Crank” as a weekly baseball column for the online edition of the Providence (R.I.) Journal. Here’s my account of that day, written for ProJo two days later while it was all still fresh; we have run this | Read More »