I just published a real mind blower at Examiner.com. It is guaranteed to make your blood boil.
Wait until you see how much it will ultimately cost you and my family to have Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM, the architect of the 9/11 attacks) and the other 9/11 Five tried in a New York City federal criminal court.
The case was ready to proceed before a military commission, so Holder quickly reached in and changed the venue and the defendant’s status by indicting them.
BUT… when they were captured, Bush was at the helm. No one in his administration would have given any thought to a criminal trial, so they never Mirandized the 9/11 Five, the prisoners were held for longer than 72 hours without being charged, had no access to legal representation and no phone call.
If you’re a NYC federal judge and the facts surrounding their arrests and the period after their arrests are presented to you, unless I’m mistaken (and that’s possible, I’m not a lawyer, but rather a paralegal) and their status was changed from enemy combatant to defendant, you are duty bound to throw the case out.
ALL of the confessions these guys made to the CIA at Gitmo are inadmissible in criminal court, but are admissible before a military commission. Does the government have a strong enough case to win conviction? I honestly don’t know. If any of you are legal scholars, I need your help.
The 9/11 Five planned the attack on foreign soil. They were captured on foreign soil. They are not citizens of the United States, ergo, they have no right to claims of constitutional protections or the far stricter rules of evidence in criminal court. We CANNOT let this go forward and must find a way to stop it.
Somehow, Obama and Holder are blind to the conflict of interest here. The 9/11 Five go to criminal court, while all other enemy combatants, all captured on foreign soil and not U.S. citizens, are tried by military commissions.
This is Obama and Holder’s way of helping the Anti-Christian Leftist Union (better known as the ACLU) finally get more than their pound of flesh from Bush and the CIA. If TVs are allowed in the courtroom, they’ll also give the 9/11 Five the forum to do great damage to this country image-wise and possibly physically by triggering a terrorist attack after waterboarding is described. Even if there are no TVs, you can bet ”The New York Times” and all other left-wing newspapers and the rest of the Lame Street press will print and air the transcripts.
I do know that if even one walks, there won’t be a Democrat seat anywhere in this nation, local, state or federal that will be considered safe.
If there are any lawyers among us who would know how to get an injunction on the venue change, please let me know. I don’t care how wild the idea may be. If we succeed, it will be our greatest triumph and will put the Tea Party Movement front and center as THE movement that stopped Obama from this charade.
Any advice is gratefully appreciated. How do we get the venue switched back to military commissions where the case belongs?
The story is here (comments and questions welcome): http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-10496-Political-Buzz-Examiner~y2009m12d7-75-million-for-security-to-try-the-911-Five-for-ACLU-Obamas-pound-of-Bush-CIA-flesh