(Via Hot Air Headlines) Ben Lerner asks a couple of questions that this administration doesn’t want to answer:
So what happens if Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 masterminds, whose trials Attorney General Eric Holder has decided will take place in the criminal justice system in New York, get off on a technicality or are somehow O.J.-Simpsoned by a jury? Can we still hold them? If not, where do they go?
At its simplest, one of two things will happen:
- They get let go. That means that the guy who planned the 1993 WTC attack and the murder of Daniel Pearl (to give just two examples) walks out onto an American street, free and happy.
- They stay locked up, and to the Devil with the court system. No, I don’t [expletive deleted] know why captured terrorists were given legal rights and a trial if an unfavorable result was going to be ignored anyway, either.
Those are the options: media circus, or show trials. The administration had better well hope they do a better job at handling this than they have at… well, everything… so far.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
Well, there is a third option if they’re acquitted – they get extradited to some other country that has warrants against them and not quite as much PC sensibilities. Which is actually what I figure would happen.