Obama, Holder, terrorist trials and the absence of any interrogation teams may get us all killed.

Eric Holder, Obama's Attorney General, has been making poor decisions for nearly two decades. He was the advisor that approved of Clinton's Marc Rich pardon - a man who owed millions to the Federal government, tried and convicted in a court of law and a donor to the Clinton Administration. From that controversy years ago, he has come to the present distress - a decision to stop the questioning of the Christmas Day plane bomber after only 50 minutes, given a lawyer and advised to keep silent after telling the questioner "there are more coming."

On August 24, 2008, it was announced that Obama's Justice Department was removing the in-place system of interrogation and replacing it with "interrogation teams." Nearly five months later, on the day the young terrorist climbed aboard the Detroit bound plane and tried to kill 270 passengers, those interrogation teams had not been put into place -- not a single person appointed, not a single team trained, assigned or even suggested. Five months of nothing.

And now, when questioned as to who, exactly, ordered the termination of questioning, no one in the Obama Administration would l give a straight answer. More than a month later, the most transparent administration of all time continues to hide the answer to such questions.

And now, Holder and his president, Mr. Obama, want to try the man who dreamed up 9-11 in a civilian court of law, allowing him the same rights of discovery given to American citizens. We are told that if the defense for these mad men ask for documents that cannot be given because of national security of reasons, the government will have to withdraw its case and let these men go free. In addition to this, the court will have to allow the terrorists a platform for making their case, using this opportunity to increase the enlistment of terrorist throughout the world.

If this trial does not take place in GITMO, and it will not if the Administration has anything to do with that decision, security costs will total at least 3/4 of a billion dollars per year regardless as to where the case is tried and the risk for acquittal is remarkably real.

Both Obama and Holder have assured the nation that these men will be convicted and executed as a result of the civilian trial. Such statements are wrong on so many levels, not the least of which is the fact that neither Obama nor Holder know the outcome of this trial.

Senator Lindsey Graham is, today, introducing a bill in the Senate that would cut off funding for any civilian trial of KSM and his four compadres. The end result of that proposed legislation may, very well, play a role in the coming elections. The effort of Obama is a very unpopular decision and rather mindless, on its face.

The "crotch bomber" and the KLM trial present to us a terrorist war policy that is in chaos and painfully lacking. We have said it before and we say it again, before Obama is finished with his first term, he may get us all killed --- jds..
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