November 17, 2009
About that Holder rationale for trying KSM in New York...
Tom Maguire puts his own special wit to use as a skewer on which to impale Eric Holder's flaccid excuse for distinguishing between the trial venues of the USS Cole and 9/11 defendants
As he told us last Friday, Eric Holder wants to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed in civilian courts because he (mostly) attacked civilians, while the attackers of the USS Cole will be sent to a military tribunal. The Dallas Morning News explained:
There is no contradiction here: military courts for attacks on the military, civilian courts for attacks on civilians.OMG. And if the next batch of terrorists are clever enough to attack an elementary school will they be tried in juvenile court?
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