Sunday, February 14, 2010

Planet Wingnut News for Sunday.


Graham: Civilian Terror Trials Compromise Intelligence, Help Bin Laden
In this weekend's Republican address, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) criticized the Obama administration's decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other terrorists in civilian criminal courts, instead of military commissions. Graham said that the 1995 Blind Sheikh trial, regarding the first World Trade Center bombing, compromised U.S. intelligence and aided Osama bin Laden:
"In the 1995 trial, because of civilian court rules, the government was required to disclose the identity of all known co-conspirators to the defense," said Graham. "One of the conspirators -- relatively obscure at the time -- was Osama bin Laden. Our intelligence services later learned this list made its way back to bin Laden tipping him off about our surveillance. A conviction was obtained in that trial, but valuable intelligence was compromised. The rest is history."

2 comments:

KittyBowTie1 said...

The media needs to stop giving Joe the Plumber attention.

SP Biloxi said...

Also, include Palin, Rush, and Dick Cheney. The MSM need to go back being a news media and not a social media.