Vice President Dick Cheney said in a radio interview Monday that Attorney General Eric Holder wants a “show trial” in New York for accused 9/11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others.
“I can’t for the life of me figure out what Holder’s intent here is in having Khalid Sheikh Mohammed tried in civilian court other than to have some kind of show trial. They’ll simply use it as a platform to argue their case – they don’t have a defense to speak of – it’ll be a place for them to stand up and spread the terrible ideology that they adhere to,” Cheney said in an interview with conservative talk radio host Scott Hennen. Read the Weekly Standard story here.
Cheney also said he supported efforts by some members of Congress to block the civilian trials. He joins former Bush administration attorneys general John Ashcroft and Michael Mukasey in criticizing the use of federal courts to try Mohammed, known throughout the government simply as KSM.
But congressional Democrats are touting a letter (see pages 3 to 13) in support of the civilian trials signed by prominent conservatives including Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform, David Keene of the American Conservative Union, and libertarian Bob Barr, a former Republican House member from Georgia.
Read on.
1 comment:
What Dickk is really afraid of is that Americans will learn that Mohammond's wife and kids were kidnapped by the US and tortured. Yes Mohammond was waterboarded almost 100 times so who wouldn't say what they wanted him to say. Now Holder is using the information Mohammond gave before his family was tortured and he was waterboarded. I wonder what the US would say if this was done to an American?
Post a Comment