Obama Capitulates On KSM @ NYC

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

The Obama administration appears to have abandoned plans to put Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and four co-conspirators on trial in Lower Manhattan, according to administration sources.

"It seems less and less likely" that the trial will take place in New York, according to a senior administration official.

The administration was facing a surge of political opposition to hosting the trial in New York. That opposition crystallized in recent days when New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, an early supporter of holding the trial in the city, said the security and financial costs were too great.

In a letter to the president Friday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairman of the Intelligence Committee, said a New York trial heightens the risk of a terrorist attack.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/29/AR2010012903213.html

 

[Chris]

[thundley4]

In a letter to the president Friday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairman of the Intelligence Committee, said a New York trial heightens the risk of a terrorist attack.

DUH!!!!   Republicans have been saying that since Lord Zero made the announcement.  Just further proof the DimRats are idiots.

[WMD Owl]

Only issue is that any place other than Gitmo will have the same security concerns as a civilian trial in NYC or in DC.

They can move the venue all over the US, but outside of Gitmo, or maybe a US warship on the high seas, there are few places that are truly secure.

[Spirit of Ronald Reagan]

I don't have a problem with the trials being at sea, preferably at the bottom of the sea.