In what has turned out to have been a farce of a trial, a trial meant to prove a political point and having nothing to do with justice, terrorist Ahmed Ghailani was convicted on one count of conspiracy to commit murder, and could receive 20 years to life. The jury found the verminous terrorist not guilty of the remainder of the 280 charges, including all | Read More »
The Miami Herald: New York Gov.-elect Andrew Cuomo says he’s against trying the professed mastermind of the Sept. 11 terror attacks in his state. This comes a day after that most political of U.S. Attorneys General, Eric Holder, announced he was close to a decision on where KSM is to be tried (this assumes that Holder is still hellbent on trying these terrorists in the | Read More »
A month or so after President Obama decided to have the federal government buy the Thomson Correctional Center in Thomson, Illinois in order to move terrorists there from Gitmo, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) put out a press release. His opening was spot on: Once again, the Obama Administration has put the interests of liberal special interest groups before the safety and security of | Read More »
President Barack Obama’s and Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to try any of the terrorists in the civilian courts is utterly ridiculous. Even if the terrorists are tried in the federal courts for committing an illegal act of war, which should be on top of the list of charges brought, a question I asked here begs for further study: Here’s something else: are there 12 | Read More »
This is just coming out: Self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be sent to New York to face trial in a civilian federal court, an Obama administration official said Friday. The others are Waleed bin Attash, Ramzi Binalshibh, Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi, and Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali. The AP piece explains what the other terrorists are accused of | Read More »
I had mentioned here that the Obama administration had appealed a ruling by Judge Vaughan Walker (an appointee of President George H.W. Bush) in the Al-Haramain v. Bush case; to correct a mistake I made, the government had requested Walker to stay his order to turn over sealed documents while they worked on appealing the ruling to the 9th Circuit. This case has to do | Read More »
That isn’t coming from me. That’s coming from the BDS “civil libertarian” lefties who are having conniptions over President Obama’s Bush-like approach towards terrorists abroad and in custody. Don’t get me wrong; Obama’s “review” of Gitmo, with the possible intention towards closing the detention facility, is very worrying. So was his request to suspend the military tribunals Congress authorized (the 2006 Military Commissions Act), as | Read More »
Apparently, one of the military judges in the Guantanamo Bay detention facility has denied the request by President Barack Obama to suspend tribunals there for 120 days. The judge, Colonel James Pohl, wasn’t persuaded by the administration’s arguments: “The Commission is unaware of how conducting an arraignment would preclude any option by the administration,” said Pohl in a written opinion, portions of which were read | Read More »
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