Obama Still Supports NYC Terror Trials, Um, I Think
Via the New York Times today at 12:45 PM.
Obama Still Backs Terror Trial in N.Y
MacDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. – President Obama has not changed his view on whether the self-described mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks should face trial in New York City, a White House spokesman said today, despite fresh criticism from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg that the proceedings should be moved from Manhattan.
“Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is a murderous thug who has admitted to some of the most heinous crimes ever committed against our country,” Bill Burton, the White House deputy press secretary, told reporters. “The president is committed to seeing that he’s brought to justice.”
Oops, my bad - what a difference less than 7 hours makes. Heckuva job, Barry!
White House officials have told the Justice Department to consider other venues for the 9/11 terror trial that was to be held in lower Manhattan, the Daily News has learned.
The decision came after Mayor Bloomberg and other politicians across the state railed against President Obama's plan to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in Manhattan Federal Court.
So, the idiot-in-chief is still going to use a civilian court?
He gives up nothing from a partisan perspective by moving the trial. In fact, he could spin it so that the decision seems to be a bow to rationality as to the site without altering the substance.
The change of site would get some of the Demorats off his back without increasing the volume of Republicant’s outrage as to the substance.
Even the Annointed One can’t miss this one…
since chicago lost the olympics, maybe they’d want to host another ‘event’.
my top choice would have to be san francisco.
No less than arch conservative Chuck Schumer called the white house yesterday to say that he thinks an NYC trial is a bad idea. They’re coming out of the wood work, and why? Because everybody knows that the president has been wounded since Massachusetts went for Brown. Now they have the balls to say what they were thinking since word of the trial first happened.