
By PAUL SCHNEE
Now let me get this straight. Attorney General Holder, playing Sancho Panza to Obama’s Don Quixote, is going to transfer the terrorist leader Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-confessed master-mind of 9/11 and the murderer of journalist Daniel Pearl, from Guatanamo to New York City for trial in a civilian court and accord him all the protections of U.S. law.
This is a joke, right? Well, no it’s not, although you may be forgiven for thinking so. What is wrong with having the trial in Guantanamo? It is remote, it is highly secure, it endangers no one, and it has its own well equipped and expensive court room with a bullet proof dock for the protection of the prisoners. In short, it is perfect. New York on the other hand is well, in America. The jail where the terrorists will be held is a few blocks from the court. It, together with the court, all the employees of the courthouse, all of the extra security personnel and the citizens of New York, will be in real, constant, lethal, and unnecessary danger during the trial. This is one of the most irresponsible decisions taken by Obama and along with reading captured terrorists Miranda rights, deciding to close Guantanamo and transport terrorists to U.S. soil for trial and imprisonment, divulging CIA interrogation methods, and the intended prosecution of our intelligence officers, crosses the line and amounts to the reckless endangerment of American citizens and the city which suffered the greatest loses of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Doing the opposite of what should be done has become a disturbing pattern in the Obama administration.
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