Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has already had a trial and been convicted of orchestrating the 9/11 attacks on the U.S. that killed nearly 3,000.
He should have been put to death by now.
Instead, the Barack Obama administration is going to give him another trial – a civilian trial in New York City, of all places – where his defense team will be able to use all the gimmickry and technicalities available to American citizens trying to beat the rap.
"Was our client read his Miranda rights?" they will ask.
"How many times was he waterboarded?"
"Was any of the evidence you are using against our clients obtained illegally?"
They will attempt to turn the trial into a circus in which George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are actually accused of crimes – probably much to the satisfaction of the Obama administration, which views their actions in bringing this mass murderer to justice as illegal.
Obama's attorney general, Eric Holder, already announced he would investigate whether CIA officers should be prosecuted for their interrogations of Mohammed and others. Maybe instead of prosecuting this monster, he might be called to testify on behalf of the defense.
If I were in Mohammed's shoes, I certainly would.
Once again, it goes to prove the point that the Obama administration doesn't view even the kind of monstrous terrorism that struck on 9/11 as anything but a criminal justice matter.
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It's not.
It's war.
That's why Mohammed and the others were tried already in a military tribunal – and accorded justice far and away superior to anything they would have received from any other country on this planet.
Further, this action by the Obama administration shows that it believes the real threat to life and liberty in America comes from Republicans, not Islamo-fascist terrorists.
This is going to be a "show trial" – not in the usual sense of the term, but a political trial all the same.
In this case, the terrorists are going to be given a high-profile media platform to spew their vile hatred of America. The prosecution doesn't really care about whether they are found guilty or innocent. What they really care about is using the trial to indict the previous administration, to ensure that our enemies learn every last detail about our interrogation techniques and, frankly, to guarantee that the next time they attack America, they won't make the same mistakes.
It's an amazing spectacle we're watching.
The Obama administration has been marked by a year of governing dangerously. But this may be its ultimate coup de grace.
Then there's the little matter of what to do with the defendants if and when they are found not guilty.
The Obama administration swears they won't be released in America.
Where then?
They won't say.
Because they can't say.
Because no other civilized country would have them.
Maybe they'll get to go back to Afghanistan, just in time for Obama's surrender there.
Maybe they will get to plot their next attack on America right back where it all began.
If it weren't so tragic, it would be hilariously funny.
But I have a feeling the families of those New York victims of the 9/11 attack fail to see any humor in this matter.
The Obama administration is more dangerous to America in many ways than any terrorist organization. What this cabal is doing to the country in stripping it of its most cherished values, its basic morality, its foundation on the rule of law, its liberties and its economy is more devastating than anything Mohammed and his zealots could have ever imagined.