Friday, January 29, 2010
It's amazing on how many issues the "reality based community" has had to come to grips with...reality. Looks like the Administration is edging ever closer to figuring out how to climb down from a grievous error and correct it's big mistake as the tweed jacket presidency (who's been trying to run a government like he was some campus nudnik was plucked up and placed in a position way above his pay grade and finally starts learning that the real world is far more complicated than a campus seminar) grinds on: Administration appears to drop plans to try alleged Sept. 11 conspirators in N.Y.
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...
Yeah, that and what? Around $400 million? This entire administration is out of its depth, but then so have been the leftist press corps that for years has been pushing one rotten idea after another.
In related administration amateurism news, The Weekly Standard has been surveying the Senate on their opinion of the handling of the Abdulmutallab arrest (good to see our friend Daniel Halper as a coauthor!): The results of a week-long TWS survey of U.S. senators and their views on the Christmas Bomber.
During the past week, THE WEEKLY STANDARD surveyed United States Senators on the U.S. government's handling of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Christmas Day bomber. The questions we asked were simple: Does Senator XX believe that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab should have been read his Miranda rights? And does Senator XX believe that Abdulmutallab should be tried in civilian courts?
Only one senator offered a clear and unequivocal "yes," in support of the Obama administration's handling of Abdulmutallab: Senator Roland Burris (D-IL).
We received answers from 38 of 40 Republicans. All 38 said that Abdulmutallab should not have been Mirandized and that he should not be tried in civilian court...
Bernie Sanders' people hung up on them.
Leftwingers bowing to reality.
This must be a first!
New York City is a target of islamofascists wherever the trial is held.
If the trial were held at West Point, also in New York State, or Guantanamo, NYC would be a target.
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