By Mona Charen"Attorney General Eric Holder adopted a tough guy pose when he announced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others will be tried in federal court for the most heinous terror attack on Americans in history. "After eight years of delay," he intoned, "those allegedly responsible for the attacks of September 11 will finally face justice. It is past time to finally act."
Where to begin? The claim that the Bush administration was somehow dilatory sets a new standard for gall, particularly coming from Eric Holder. As former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy points out, "The principal reason there were so few military trials is the tireless campaign conducted by leftist lawyers (including Holder) to derail military tribunals by challenging them in the courts."
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This decision clearly aims to judge the methods of the Bush's administration and it doesn't seem right to compromise the principle of impartial justice with the political objectives. It's like Holder doesn't even care about the result of such a trial or is expecting an assured result of a KSM's conviction just because Obama said so. That's not a very professional attitude. Lorne
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