Obama Administration Announces Trials Of 9/11 Terrorists In US Civilian Courts

Proof  •  November 13, 2009

Frankly, I thought the Bush administration had solved this problem appropriately with the Military Commissions Act which would have allowed these enemy combatants to be tried in a military justice forum. I’d point out that the MCA, in section 7, states the following: “No court, justice, or judge shall have jurisdiction to hear or consider an application for a writ of habeas corpus filed by or on behalf of an alien detained by the United States who has been determined by the United States to have been properly detained as an enemy combatant or is awaiting such determination.”
Further, Article III Section 2 of the Constitution states:

In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.

Given that the Constitution also grants Congress the power to establish and define jurisdiction for all other federal courts outside of the Supreme Court what’s clear here is that they can decide what cases the federal courts can and cannot hear. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court ignored the Constitution and ruled the MCA to be unconstitutional. And so now we’ve got terrorists in our federal court system.

TOKYO, Japan (CNN) –Accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed “will be subject to the most exacting demands of justice,” President Obama said Friday.
“The American people insist on it, and my administration will insist on it,” Obama told reporters at a joint news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama.
He was responding to a reporter’s question about media reports that Mohammed will be tried in a federal court in New York, instead of by a military commission.

The problem here is that these terrorists are not US citizens or even just common international criminals. They are enemy combatants captured in a war and should be handled accordingly.

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  • http://Array sayanything-2407

    Accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed “will be subject to the most exacting demands of justice,” President Obama said Friday.

    By bringing them to NYC so they can take pleasure in the destruction they caused, the lives they wiped out, the families and Americans that were hurt.

    Bring them to the place of what they consider their greatest triumph against the infidels, and also cause the most grief to those in NYC.

    Whether you believe they should be tried in military tribunal or by court system, bringing them to NYC has got to be the stupidest thing ever conceived.

  • sayanything-2

    Really? So, their proud, loud, and repeated proclamations that they in fact DID IT is what?

  • http://stopthepresses2.blogspot.com/ stopthepresses

    Stopthepresses psychics (psycho chics) look into future and gives us a peek at Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s Christmas eve, New York City trial.

    Just in time for the holidays. After killing thousands of Americans on 911, Self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, believes himself to be Mohammand-Claus. In an attempt to prove that the terrorist is delusional, the U.S. District Attorney today asked the Court to declare Khalid Sheikh Mohammed a Muslim terrorist and to force him to remove his beard and little red hat. The terrorist’s attorney in a counter move, asked the Court to declare that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is in fact Mohammed-Claus. In a classic holiday scene, the terrorist’s attorney related to the judge that he has letters from people who, after cheering the death and destruction of 911, wrote letters to Mohammed-Claus, that the U.S. Post Office delivered to the court house. After the attorney hesitated the judge ordered him to put the letters on his desk. The judge was soon covered in letters, as the court room full of Muslims exploded with calls of “Allahu Akbar” and “fa la hal la la gee, gee, gee, gee……” The judge became suspicious when he noticed that the letters that covered him, all smelled like a strange mix of camels, pita bread, hummus, and baba ghanoush. The trial has been continued until Christmas Eve.

  • sayanything-2

    Yep, their are gonna walk.

  • sayanything-2

    “these people will finally be brought to justice.” No, they won’t. C&cksuckers like you are going to see they walk.

  • sayanything-2407

    A few other issues i have with this.

    They will be out where they can be gotten to. What is chances of terrorist attack during trials?

    Increased Security? Transport? Housing?
    Who is paying for all of this?
    Didn’t NYC say it would be broke by December? Will they get stuck with the bill?
    How much is this fiasco and media show going to cost?

  • jimmypop

    these people did nothing wrong…… prove that they did. in usa courts.

    we couldnt prove oj did it and we had gloves and dna.

  • sayanything-43

    I think it’s not unlikely they’ll walk, not because they aren’t guilty but because the standards of arrest and investigation are different on the battlefield than in a domestic police situation.

    The other thing is that this makes New York a prime target for another terrorist attack.

    We’re at war.

  • sayanything-2

    Funny, boob and the other anti-American a$$holes continue to fight for their Muslim terrorist heroes. And it was them that insisted on building a multi-million dollar facility in Gitmo, which will now be torn down.

  • TheTodd

    I just saw the headline and thought the article was going to be supporting Obama (despite the author), since I had no idea people could possibly be opposed to this.

    I was wrong.

    “The problem here is that these terrorists are not US citizens or even just common international criminals. They are enemy combatants captured in a war and should be handled accordingly.”

    How does providing suspected terrorists with the same legal representation/prosecutorial burden of proof as other suspected criminals harm anyone?

  • http://fu.com/ robert108

    Dave: How are we going to find “a jury of their peers” for this bunch of non-citizen terrorists?
    Shall we draw from the pool of terrorist-loving leftie “journalists”?
    These guys have already confessed and requested to be executed; why is there even going to be a public trial? Are you really that stupid?

  • sayanything-3035

    bringing these killers to US and putting them in our courts, on the heels of Ft.Hood, reveals a political stupidity by TEAM OBAMA that lift’s the hearts of GOP faithful everywhere.

    NOV. 2010: THE RIGHT TIME FOR AMERICA

  • sayanything-3035

    oh yes boob…..bring the terrorists into US courts…..maybe a few get released as the govt. can’t reveal sources and by legal flim flam, Gitmo prisioners end up on MSNBC as prime time guests.

    the bed wetting will be by Dem candidates trying to explain this fiasco

  • http://fu.com/ robert108

    They’re foreign terrorists, rbb, not just ordinary killers. They aren’t US citizens, and don’t deserve time in a civilian court. President Bush considered them POWs, and therefore didn’t complete their sentences until the terrorists surrender and stop waging war on us. Duh.
    Obama wants to create an antiAmerican circus, while his Muslim terrorist buddies continue to make war on us.

  • sayanything-3035

    whenever libs gain power in America, they almost instantly lose it.

    unreal bob the boob is the perfect example of why American voters end up rejecting the left: libs are out of step & out of answers for the problems we face at home…… and outof thier freaking minds when it comes to dealing with a hostile Islamic world that is at war with US even as idiot Dems declare we are not at war with them

  • http://fu.com/ robert108

    You might almost conclude that Obama is a devout Muslim, or something…

    I wonder if they’re going to acknowledge the fact that AQ declared war on us during the Clinton administration; Clinton ignored it.

  • sayanything-51

    You nutters do realize that this guy wasn’t taken on battlefield, but was arrested in Pakistan by local law enforcement, don’t you?

    Why are you such wet wetting cry babies?

    Is it because bush had this guy tortured and some of what he may have admitted to is not admissible in court?

  • sayanything-51

    Bringing these killers to the US and putting them on trial for being killers reveals something that bushco was to scared to do.

    Stop wetting your bed, Mr. Hope, stand up like a real American and be proud that these people will finally be brought to justice.

  • sayanything-51

    I would never have guessed that so called rugged individualist were such bed wetters.

    Good to know that when it’s time to stand up and administer justice you all just coward and whimper about things that would make your fathers ashamed of you.

  • sayanything-2

    I remember Hillary saying it never happened, even as they thanked her husband!

  • sayanything-2

    Toot? They will walk, Dept Justice will see to it, that is why they have fought tooth&nail to have all these terrorists tried in American civilian courts.

  • sayanything-2361

    “They are enemy combatants captured in a war and should be handled accordingly.”

    Worse, enemy half combatants/half mafia of a foreign countries captured in other countries using military (not police) forces. If not walking then a huge kluge mess of a trial that won’t have appropriate resolution. The military tribunals were made to handle this just because it is so different.

    Civil trials will be worse than the OJ trials.

  • sayanything-7609

    The announcement of this happens when the President is out of the country speaks volumes. He can’t take the heat, so he gets out of the kitchen before the flame up occurs.

  • sayanything-8436

    What’s next? Presidential pardons for Hitler, Mao and Pol Pot? NOTHING that this administration does would surprise me any longer.

  • sayanything-2361

    Todd, say hi to the new baby.
    They are foreign nationals engaged in semi-war/semi-mafia activities in the confines of a different country and picked up in still a third country by not police using police procedure but military soldiers using war ROE. They established the military tribunals to deal with all those problems, as opposed to our legal systems that is used for within a state with state police and tends to break down when it gets as complicated as state to state extradition. (Much less country to country to country to country.)

  • sayanything-2361

    These guys will see some kind of justice but I agree with LittleGreenFootballs:

    “I don’t think this increases the danger of terror attacks against New York; the city is already a target. It does increase the danger of circus trials, with grandstanding civil rights attorneys and constant outbursts and tirades from Mohammed.”

    This will be a replay of OJ but playing into the hands of terrorists.

  • sayanything-21

    I hope that Eric Holder himself does the prosecution. I hope they indigt Bush, Cheney and the easter bunny. Then I hope the criminal terrorists are set free on the streets of New York.

    I hope this all takes place just a week before the 2012 elections and guarantees a Palin win.

    This will demonstrate what a bunch of weasel faced idiots are in charge right now. This whole thing is a perfect example of the insanity of all that is Obama and his collective crackpots.

    This is the very dumbest think they could have done, but liberals always manage to shoot themselves in the feet.

    BANG!!

  • sayanything-221

    The Obama administration has made very few decisions on major that were not wrong.
    This ranks right up there with his best.
    The Liberal Democrats have worked themselves into a very deep hole being anti-Bush on everything including violent Muzzie’s and the War on Terror. They do not want to do anything that remotely resembles a decision that Bush made.
    It will cost us, and cost us dearly in the long run. All to placate probably less that twenty percent of the ultra liberals that voted for him.
    The quicker he becomes ineffective, the better.

  • sayanything-6955
  • sayanything-2361

    Did I mention stupid? This is stupid. and wrong. bad. and stupid.

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