Holder: We won’t release KSM if he wins in court
Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to put Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is going to cost hundreds of millions of dollars more than trying the terrorist in a military tribunal. According to Eric Holder, putting KSM on trial in New York will show the world that America lives up to its ideals. One problem with that; Attorney General Holder also says that he won’t be letting KSM go if the terrorist isn’t convicted.
(Washington Times) Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. let stand Wednesday a claim that confessed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed will remain in U.S. custody even if he is acquitted in the so-called “trial of the century” scheduled for a New York courtroom.
The claim arose during a tense Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, at which Mr. Holder defended from a storm of Republican criticism his decision to bring five suspects in the Sept. 11 attacks to trial in New York.
“It’s my understanding that if [Mohammed] is not convicted, and somehow the judge lets him off on a technicality or something, then he becomes an enemy combatant, and then you are right back where you started,” said Sen. Charles E. Grassley, Iowa Republican. “So what do you gain?”
That’s sure going to send a great message to the world. If we catch you, we’ll pt you on trial. If you win we won’t let you go. Way to go Eric.
I stand by my earlier assertion that this is a bread and circuses trrial designed to distract the public from the economy and the political machinations going on in Washington DC.
