Debra Burlingame today, flanked by Andrew McCarthy and Rep. Peter King
Mark Levin spoke with former Assistant United States Attorney Andrew McCarthy about AG Eric Holder’s decision to prosecute 9/11’s war criminals in federal court a mere 6 blocks from Ground Zero.
“The Cole bombing did not prompt a military war against al-Qaeda. It eventually resulted in a civilian indictment that is still pending. The Pentagon is the ultimate military target, and the attack against it spurred both the war we are now fighting and the implementation of military commissions to try jihadist war criminals. Yet, Holder has decided to give KSM & Co. the protections of a civilian trial rather than the rigors of a military hearing. Given that humanitarian law has for decades strived to civilize warfare by protecting civilians, it is perverse to swaddle mass murderers in full Bill of Rights protections while those who strike military assets get second-tier due process. But the point here is that Comey and Goldsmith are purporting to defend “Holder’s reasonable decision.” How reasonable can Holder’s decision be if his defenders must substitute their own suppositions for his, which, as they admit, cannot withstand scrutiny.”
Mark prefaced their discussion with today’s report that three Navy SEALs are being prosecuted for bloodying the lip of a captured terrorist who had murdered four Americans in April 2004 outside of Fallujah, Iraq:
A fuller report and audio from today’s 911NeverForget.Us press conference is here.
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with all due respect first and foremost it was an act of war,second of all any good legal councel would have enough knowledge that any defense attorneyt he gets will still seek a change of venue,i am not an attorney however i am aware that once it is decided to try him in a regular court his first defense would be to seek a change of venue meaning that his rights would be violated because of the overwhelming personal grief and judgement the city of new york citizens would feel therefore he could not effectively be given a fair trial due to jury prejudice…….that is facts….so why would this attorney general seek to pursue this costly trial in this manner unless he has made a deal with the devil himself. Next is the president has a moral obligation to consider all families closely associated with this disaster and should advis this be a military trial. I would love to express more on this subject but i believe this is plain enough. By the way how do you register to become a memeber.
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AG Holder is almost right about one thing; this would be a continuation of the trial of the last century. The 1990s terror crime prosecutions sought to stop the waging of war by unlawful warriors and provided false comfort; they failed to prevent the USS Cole, 9/11, Bali, or thousands more war crimes. Yes, a few went to jail yet countless more rushed off to Afghanistan and the jihad at the Blind Sheikh’s urging.
Unless found mentally incompetent, KSM and the other four will have an absolute right to defend themselves in federal court. They don’t want a change of venue. They want to disrupt our judicial system and tie up as much of our government at they can. Any Article III court trial would force the use of significant amounts of federal and local security assets yet, in lower Manhattan, it would come with a bonus: the need to greatly increase security on nearby Wall Street and at the World Trade Center construction site.
Holder bristled during his Senate testimony at the suggestion he was giving them the largest stage, alleging KSM doesn’t get to choose so who then it the bigger fool?
As strange as this venue appears to be it is not strange at all to the proponents. It is purposeful. Make no mistake about the fact that we have elected a communist. He is the real deal and what we are looking at is an ideology that is hell bent on trumping Constitutional principles. This trial is designed as a platform to allow an anti-American ideology to have its say and the MSM will be the bugle, emanating from NYC, that reverberates and echoes around the World.
We are witnessing ideology so pure it disregards election consequences. You cannot understand this by using American rationale. Ideologues need to be taken at face value and attempting to make an alternative case using American logic will be to no avail because the very purpose of this trial is to hurt us, using an ideology aided and abetted by our own facilities.
Out of the ashes of the World Trade Center rises yet another Sphinx. Like some fictional Sci-Fi thriller it isn’t over when you think it should be and the end only represents the beginning of the next sequel.
True.
As strange as it seems task, Holder didn’t have a response to many of Graham’s questions. He must have had plenty of time to think about it before the hearing and yet he has no real rebuttal. They know what they are doing and they don’t even bother to come up with a good lie to cover for it.
Actually we’re in a crime wave induced war, we’re there for the oil and gas and control of oil & gas.
We need to control oil & gas because we have worthless fiat currency because we give $400K home loans and “free” services to millions of illegal aliens except everybody knows there’s no such thing as “free” money.
Speaking of Holder. Check out his recent position on Acorn. Here is an agency designed to get government money from other government agencies, to empower itself, while wallowing in misrepresentation, voter fraud, scams, misuse of funds, theft, suborning criminal schemes and he wants to give them what they billed (bilked) the US taxpayer before anything became public.
Private citizens (doing the AG’s job) exposed and discovered incredible deceit which resonates with contract fraud yet you, I and every other taxpayer should just pay the bill as if all that has been uncovered, has nothing to do with what they were contracted to do in the first place.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/28/us/politics/28acorn.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1259355860-u1P2DRmPrdFQwFuMP5+Gww