Human Rights First, which staunchly opposes any decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his fellow 9/11 conspirators in a military commission, convened a conference call with three prominent retired military leaders More…
Retired Army Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, who helped command the training of the Iraqi Army during the early phase of the Iraq war, is distressed to hear that More…
The Washington Post is pretty sure that Obama’s advisers are congealing around abandoning Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in civilian court. Apparently President Obama has yet to make a decision. If he goes back to the military commissions for KSM and the other 9/11 conspirators — military charges More…
One of the major critiques of holding a civilian trial for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his fellow alleged 9/11 conspirators is that any city hosting the trial becomes a terrorist target. Rand Beers, the undersecretary of Homeland Security who used to be part of Richard Clarke’s crew of 1990s-vintage counterterrorism More…
The Washington Post runs a breathless piece of Kremlinology arguing that Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, “is a force of political reason within the White House and could have helped the administration avoid its current bind if the president had heeded his advice.”
The Washington Post has an interview with Attorney General Eric Holder in which Holder, for the first time, appears to give himself breathing room to abandon federal criminal trials for the 9/11 conspirators:
“At the end of the day, wherever this case is tried, in whatever forum, what we
A few weeks ago, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Senate intelligence committee, gave conservatives a flicker of hope for a high-profile Democratic dissenter on the Obama administration’s plans to try the 9/11 perpetrators in civilian courts. She didn’t come out and float such a possibility, but More…
For a one-stop compendium of how the prospects for trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York City for his role in 9/11 have deteriorated, ProPublica’s Dafna Linzer has you covered. What remains interesting: There has yet to be any effort by any New Yorker skeptical of holding the More…
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, has released a letter she sent to President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder asking them to reconsider trying Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the architect of the 9/11 attacks, in Manhattan. Significantly, Feinstein urged Obama and Holder to More…
Some conservatives are taking heart that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg had second thoughts about trying 9/11 architect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in Manhattan. But Bloomberg doesn’t want what they want, which is for KSM not to be tried in civilian court. If the trial occurs in some other More…
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