11/18/09: Obama, Holder Talk Tough on KSM Trial

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Talking tough is not the same as acting tough, but Eric Holder and President Obama are too busy failing to know the difference:

President Barack Obama predicted that professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be convicted and executed as Attorney General Eric Holder proclaimed: "Failure is not an option."

Source: Forbes

Even if a terror trial suspect were acquitted, Holder said, he would not be released in the United States.

Err... Uh... Failure already happened. A terrorist who has confessed to plotting to kill thousands of American citizens is being granted a federal trial. He is being afforded the rights of a US citizen - innocent until proven guilty, jury of his peers, all that jazz...

But, but, but, but, wait! It gets worse! These guys just won't stop talking about their idiotic policy decisions:

Even if a terror trial suspect were acquitted, Holder said, he would not be released in the United States.

In one of a series of TV interviews during his trip to Asia, Obama said those offended by the legal privileges given to Mohammed by virtue of getting a civilian trial rather than a military tribunal won't find it "offensive at all when he's convicted and when the death penalty is applied to him."

Source: Forbes

Are these guys serious? Let's review:

• KSM was the mastermind who plotted 9/11
• KSM confessed to being the mastermind
• President Obama (dba Eric Holder) is granting a trial to KSM
• Obama has declared -BEFORE HIS TRIAL - that KSM will receive the death penalty

Andrew McCarthy - who prosecuted Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman for his involvement in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center - weighs in on this madness:

In a meeting with the press in China, President Obama said that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would be "convicted" and had "the death penalty applied to him" . . . and then said he wasn't "pre-judging" the case. He made the second statement after it was pointed out to him — by NBC's Chuck Todd — that the first statement would be taken as the president's interfering in the trial process. Obama said that wasn't his intention. I'm sure it wasn't — he's trying to contain the political damage caused by his decision — but that won't matter. He has given the defense its first motion that the executive branch, indeed the president himself, is tainting the jury pool. Nice work.

Source: National Review

And they said George W. Bush was a reckless cowboy...