The soft-on-terrorism charge is unfair to Obama. But it is gaining traction because of two glaring mistakes.
by Stuart Taylor Jr.
Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010
I have instructed my subordinates that suspected Al Qaeda terrorists captured anywhere in the world should be interrogated extensively — with safeguards against abuse — before any Miranda warnings or access to lawyers. [...]
By Mark Davis
I was in the worst possible place to hear of the worst possible idea for bringing the 9/11 plotters to justice.
A dreary rain pelted New York City as tabloid headlines shouted from beneath tarpaulin-covered newsstands. “Evil Returns,” proclaimed the giant New York Daily News headline plastered across the face of avowed mastermind Khalid [...]
By Charles Krauthammer
WASHINGTON — For late-19th-century anarchists, terrorism was the “propaganda of the deed.” And the most successful propaganda-by-deed in history was 9/11 — not just the most destructive, but the most spectacular and telegenic.
And now its self-proclaimed architect, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, has been given by the Obama administration a civilian trial in New York. [...]
Our view(Baltimore Sun): Alleged 9/11 conspirators should be treated as common criminals, not POWs
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. made the right decision to try alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four accomplices in criminal court in New York rather than before a military commission abroad. A criminal proceeding on U.S. soil that is [...]
The foolhardiness of President Obama’s decision to try the mastermind of 9/11 and four cohorts in civilian court grows ever clearer as the outlines of the proceedings take shape.
It is offensive that Obama gave his blessings to designating Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and his Al Qaeda crew as common criminals rather than as enemy combatants, perpetrators [...]
By Michael Goodwin
9/11 and other terror freaks here for trial.
We don’t deserve this. Why are we being punished again?
Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to ship Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay prisoners to Manhattan for federal trials is beyond bad judgment.
It is a radical call that puts his leftist legal theories over public [...]
By Daniel Dombey in Washington and Harvey Morris in New York
The Obama administration on Friday set the stage for what could be the most high-profile trial in US history when it said it was seeking the death penalty in a New York court for Khaled Sheikh Mohammed and four accomplices accused of being behind the [...]
Why NYC terror trial is a major mistake………
By KRIS W. KOBACH
Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees in civilian federal court in New York City is the latest in a long series of missteps in the war against radical Islamist terrorism.
KSM — the notorious, self-proclaimed mastermind [...]
CHICAGO — The funeral of a Chicago teen who was beaten to death on his way home from school drew civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan on Saturday, both calling for an end to youth violence.
Farrakhan said he came to the funeral because he was “deeply pained” [...]
By Tony Romm
Seven former CIA chiefs on Friday urged the Obama administration to halt its investigation of the agency’s interrogation methods, predicting the latest inquiry would only foster “an atmosphere of continuous jeopardy.”
The retired agency heads — John Deutch, Porter Goss, Michael Hayden, James R. Schlesinger, George Tenet, William Webster and R. James Woolsey — [...]
