Friday, January 29, 2010
Obama Faces New Pressure To Try Terror Suspects In Military Tribunal
From FOX News:
As the Justice Department searches for a new venue to hold the trial of confessed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, critics are pouncing on the Obama administration's steadfast refusal to consider a military tribunal to bring the terror suspect and his four alleged accomplices to justice.
The administration's critics say moving the trial to a different venue isn't the solution. They maintain that the terror suspects, who were captured on foreign soil and are being held at the military prison in Guantanamo, shouldn't be brought to the U.S. at all.
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My Comment: Considering the criticism and blow-back that the White House and Justice department are receiving from their original decision to try the 9/11 plotters in a Manhattan Federal courtroom .... the prospect of military tribunals must now appear very tempting. But will they follow through and reverse their decision on how these detainees should be tried .... for the moment I do not see that happening.
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