Mr. Attorney General, Where Would You Put Osama bin Laden?

November 19th, 2009 Mike Brownfield

In today’s Morning Bell, we wrote about the historically bad decision Attorney General Eric Holder made in announcing that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and five other terrorists would be tried in a civilian court in New York City rather than before a military tribunal.

Edwin Meese III, the Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow in Public Policy and Chairman of the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation as well as the United States Attorney General between 1985 and 1988, called Holder’s decisions a “a tragic mistake.”

In the video below, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) questions Holder on his decision during yesterday’s Senate Judiciary Committee Oversight hearing of the U.S. Department of Justice. His questions illustrate why trying terrorists in civilian court is such a tragic mistake.

Click here to view the embedded video.

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trestinmeacham

This really makes no sense to me. We have not stopped the military tribunals, yet these guys are going to be tried in a U.S. court? They are not U.S. citizens. They were not captured on U.S. soil.

The Conservative Gazette

This move was made so that Obama and company can bring out classified material that they think might be harmful to Bush and Cheney. This is the only reason for such a stupid move. This evidence, if permitted by the judge will also help our enemies. Obama is a Muslim sympathizer and hater of American and its values, make no mistake about it.