Obama caves on NYC Terrorism Trial

[ISASO]

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/253356/obama-caves-civilian-trial-ksm-andrew-c-mccarthy#

The media is reporting that the administration will hold Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other 9/11 plotter indefinitely, granting them neither a civilian nor a military trial. This determination, leaked over the weekend, appears to be a rebuff of Attorney General Eric Holder, who had intimated a few days earlier that a civilian prosecution was imminent.

Here’s the difference between Presidents Bush and Obama: The former’s strategy was driven by weighty national-security concerns and maintained despite ceaseless condemnation from the Obama Left. Obama’s strategy — or, more accurately, his drift — is driven by naked political concerns, and his base’s media megaphone has gone nearly silent.

While President Obama has gradually and grudgingly made the Bush strategy his own, he lacks the grace to say so, much less to give his predecessor credit.

[Maggie]

McCarthy is spot on – as he is most of the time. Nice that the Obama administration can now admit the obvious. All of the attorney general’s assertions regarding the superiority of a public trial have proven faulty, and the administration now looks buffoonish. This was all perfectly apparent at the time to everyone but Eric Holder and the leftist lawyers who populate the DOJ.

Interestingly the administration has had to countermand Eric Holder at least twice now - first on the release of the detainee-abuse photos and now on the KSM trial (and perhaps on the entire issue of military tribunals). For a constitutional scholar, as the president imagines himself, he certainly hired a second-rate lawyer to run the Justice Department. The good news is that his advice appears to have a short shelf-life.

The President himself now says “Campaigning is different than governing”. Well, duh – and where are all those Obama supporters now who believed governing would be a breeze once The One we had been waiting for took his throne. It has turned out to be quite a lot different. The world is an untidy place; problems are often more difficult and even more intractable than candidates imagine. Expressing intentions - like, say, closing down Guantanamo Bay, trying Khalid Sheik Mohammad in a civilian court, keeping unemployment below 8 percent, bending the health-care cost curve down while at the same time covering more people, convincing the Iranians to give up their pursuit of nuclear weapons, ushering in peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians, even signing a free-trade agreement with South Korea - is different than actually implementing successful policies.

The GOP, to their credit (I hope), seem to have learned from Obama’s mistakes, as well as some of their own. While their current attitude doesn’t guarantee success, it does show a level of maturity about politics and life, about their possibilities and limitations, that is a welcome thing to see. The days of meaningless incantations like “hope and change,” of healing the planet and reversing the ocean tides, are gone with the wind. And good riddance, we are at least better for that.

[ISASO]

Obama The Messiah is at best, just like a lot of other run-of-the-mill politicians. At worst, he is a treasonous false prophet who should have never won a single primary race. The liberal media and the gullible American voters have done this country a great disservice. We can overcome this near-tragedy but it will take extreme, unwavering focus on that task for years to come.

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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Accused 9/11 Co-Conspirators to Face Military Trial

A formal announcement is expected by Attorney General Eric Holder later in the day. The decision is a turn-around from remarks Holder made in November 2009 that he had decided the alleged conspirators -- Mohammed, Walid Muhammed Salih Mubarak Bin Attash, Ramzi Bin Al Shibh, Ali Abdul-Aziz Ali and Mustafa Ahmed Al Hawsawi -- should be prosecuted in civilian court.

At the time, President Obama said he left the decision to Holder. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Monday that the decision to reverse himself remained with Holder, but he didn't want to get ahead of the announcement.

"The president's primary concern here is that the perpetrators ... of that terrible attack on the American people be brought to justice as swiftly as possible and as fairly as possible," he said.

Debra Burlingame, head of 9/11 Families for a Safe and Strong America, said the group is "relieved" Obama "abandoned his plan" to bring the conspirators to U.S. soil.

[Maggie]

Shocking.

But why? Why now? What changed?