Obama scrambling for a way out of KSM trial dilemma
Rick Moran
The word is that Holder and Obama “never expected” the kind of pushback against holding a civilian trial for 9/11 plotter Khalid Sheikk Mohammed.
This is pretty clueless in and of itself. How tone deaf do you have to be in order to be caught unawares when such large majorities favor keeping KSM from using a civilian trial as a propaganda tool?
So now, Obama is frantically looking for a way out – keeping the idea of a civilian trial open but moving the venue somewhere else. This is probably a dead end and there are even many Democrats who believe the president will cave on the issue and have KSM tried by a military tribunal.
According to this article in the Washington Post by Anne Kornblut and Carrie Johnson, the president has “inserted himself” into the decision making process:
Officials acknowledged that Holder does not deserve all the blame for the political problems. “Their building represents what they do — justice. It's rightly not staffed with people who have to worry about congressional relations or federal funding,” one White House official said.
At first blush, the choice of New York made sense to many lawyers inside and outside of the administration: Judges and prosecutors there have handled serious national
via American Thinker Blog: Obama scrambling for a way out of KSM trial dilemma.