Congressman Sestak Responds to Announced Prosecution of Al Qaeda Terrorists

Khalid Sheik Mohammed has admitted involvement in the 9/11 terror attacks. I don't think it really matters where justice is served, ultimately Mohammed is a dead man.

Why are we having a trail anyway? These guys have pled guilty.

Because we are a nation of laws....

Individuals need to stand before the bar of justice and be held accountable for their actions.

Because confessing to a crime and pleading guilty in a court of law are not the same thing.

My personal feelings about the death penalty aside, we are only going to help the cause of terrorism by making him a martyr if he's sentenced to death. However, I think GCTMT was right when he said no matter where he's tried, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is a dead man.

I don't think anyone except New York knows or should speak for how New York will feel. That's their call, not mine.

If those guys plead guilty in a courtroom, which remains to be seen, there will not be much of a 'trial' and not much 'evidence' presented. Just sentencing.

The JWR piece, I disagree with in so many parts...but that will come as no surprise to anyone.

I've been reading a lot about this in the past few days and I really think there are serious reasons to question the appropriateness of this decision. This article addresses many of them.

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell111709.php3

In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama administration, nothing seems more like sheer insanity than the decision to try foreign terrorists, who have committed acts of war against the United States, in federal court, as if they were American citizens accused of crimes.
Terrorists are not even entitled to the protection of the Geneva Convention, much less the Constitution of the United States. Terrorists have never observed, nor even claimed to have observed, the Geneva Convention, nor are they among those covered by it.

But over and above the utter inconsistency of what is being done is the utter recklessness it represents. The last time an attack on the World Trade Center was treated as a matter of domestic criminal justice was after a bomb was exploded there in 1993. Under the rules of American criminal law, the prosecution had to turn over all sorts of information to the defense — information that told the Al Qaeda international terrorist network what we knew about them and how we knew it.

This was nothing more and nothing less than giving away military secrets to an enemy in wartime — something for which people have been executed, as they should have been. Secrecy in warfare is a matter of life and death. Lives were risked and lost during World War II to prevent Nazi Germany from discovering that Britain had broken its supposedly unbreakable Enigma code and could read their military plans that were being radioed in that code.

"Loose lips sink ships" was the World War II motto in the United States. But loose lips are mandated under the rules of criminal prosecutions.. . . ."


. . . ."How many Americans may pay with their lives for the intelligence secrets and methods that can forced to be disclosed to Al Qaeda was not mentioned. Nor was there mention of how many foreign nations and individuals whose cooperation with us in the war on terror have been involved in countering Al Qaeda — nor how many foreign nations and individuals will have to think twice now, before cooperating with us again, when their role can be revealed in court to our enemies, who can exact revenge on them.. . . "


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Not to mention how vulnerable New York will feel.






steph

The more decisions this administration makes, the more I'm wondering if they have completely lost their minds. This is a very reckless decision and a dangerous precedence.