KSM may get military tribunal at Gitmo after all
January 30, 2010
Oh, I will laugh myself silly if this is the outcome after all the hysterical posturing from the left:
Walk a climbdown this would be if they do it. In the aftermath of the White House’s decision to seek alternative sites for trials of the 9/11 plotters, including alleged mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed, a senior administration official said Friday it is possible the suspects could be tried under military charges at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility . The official stressed this is not the preferred option, but said using military commissions at Guantanamo for these high-visibility trials is “part of the range of options” the adminstration is “looking at in light of the fact some in Congress are planning to prevent the trials from occurring in New York City.”
More here – Heh: KSM may get military tribunal at Gitmo after all.
Do they sell popcorn, and is it halal?
January 30, 2010
Whenever I think of actress Lily Tomlin now, I think of her animal-rights plea in 2008 : “The word, ‘zoo,’ is sort of elephant-speak for Guantanamo. They’re really, they are suffering and being tortured.”
More hilarity here: Lily Tomlin’s Radical Recommendations
Is it over yet?
January 30, 2010
Depressing, but true SOTU reax from Powerline:
Obama stuck to his guns when it came to the signature items of his first year in office, and stuck to his butter when it came to national security. Without directly addressing his elimination of the CIA’s enhanced interrogation program, his promise to close Guantanamo, his responsibility for bringing KSM to trial in federal court in New York and the Christmas day bomber to trial in Detroit, he chastised those who would dare criticize his handling of terrorism, declaring that “all of us love this country” and warning his Republican critics to “put aside the schoolyard taunts about who is tough.”
It is not a schoolyard taunt, however, to say he’s gonna get us killed. And when he threatens (or promises) “growing consequences” to Iran, he makes it unnaturally difficult to stifle schoolyard taunts.
