Well, technically, the reports say President Obama is ordering Eric Holder to "consider" moving the trial of 9/11 terrorist conspirators out of New York City. Since Obama made sure he was in China when Holder announced the trials, he must feel like he needs to continue acting as if this whole thing was Holder's idea. Whatever:
The White House ordered the Justice Department Thursday night to consider other places to try the 9/11 terror suspects after a wave of opposition to holding the trial in lower Manhattan.Good on the mayor. However, the final nail in this coffin of failure probably came when Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) bolstered Bloomberg's statements by urging the White House to take his request seriously. This all comes days after it was revealed that Holder lied when he said he had consulted with Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly before making the decision to hold the trials in NYC.
The dramatic turnabout came hours after Mayor Bloomberg said he would "prefer that they did it elsewhere" and then spoke to Attorney General Eric Holder.
"It would be an inconvenience at the least, and probably that's too mild a word for people that live in the neighborhood and businesses in the neighborhood," Bloomberg told reporters.
"There are places that would be less expensive for the taxpayers and less disruptive for New York City."
Source: NY Daily News
Pulling the trials out of NYC is as close to an admission of failure as you will ever get from these clowns - this whole thing was a fiasco, a farce and a failure from the get-go. The next step is for the trials to be canceled altogether. Fingers crossed...

