Midknight Review -- new and revised: Obama hopes to put the killers of Ambassador Stevens on trial in American civilian court, treating this incident as a criminal matter instead of an act of terrorism. Here is the perfect reason why this is a bad bad idea.

Court overturns conviction of bin Laden driver

A federal appeals court significantly narrowed the power of the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay by ruling Tuesday that those tribunals have no authority to try prisoners for providing assistance to terrorist organizations before 2006.

The ruling from a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit overturned the military commission conviction of Salim Hamdan, a Yemeni man who served as a driver to Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden. Hamdan was transferred to Yemen in 2008 and released, but the court’s ruling could affect other military commission cases. . . . . . . The judges ruled that material support of terrorism, a common terrorism-related charge in U.S. civilian criminal courts, is not a war crime under international law and therefore is beyond the scope of what military commissions were permitted to do as originally constituted.

Editor's notes: just in time for the evening's debate. This is what happens when Libs take battlefield captives into civilian courts. This man's conviction has been over turned. He was released in Yemen and the matter is a done deal.

The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."

Midknight Review -- new and revised

Obama hopes to put the killers of Ambassador Stevens on trial in American civilian court, treating this incident as a criminal matter instead of an act of terrorism. Here is the perfect reason why this is a bad bad idea.

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