For over two hundred years, those captured by the military outside the civil boundaries or caught carrying out military action on US soil, were tried by military tribunals. Up until the 1950s the military used drum head trials to convict and execute those found fighting in violation of custom and international law. Pirates were often hung at sea within hours of their capture. In WWII, anyone fighting disguised as a civilian faced summary execution with the approval of just three officers.

For over two hundred years we were careful to keep a firewall between civil and martial law. We did so because civil and martial law are polar opposites. Civil law is focused on protecting the rights of the accused against the overwhelming power of the state. When there is doubt, the accused walks free. Martial law is focused on imposing a minimal order on bloody chaos. It was focused on allowing the military to complete its mission and win wars. When there is doubt, the accused is presumed guilty.

Now, Obama wants to bring martial law into a civil court room in Manhattan. In order to let a civil conviction of KSM stand, the higher courts will have to overturn almost all the current constitutional protections of the accused.

Why would Pinnochio Hussein Obama demand congress shut down its investigation? Shut it down until he and Holder can do a thourogh whitewash of and elimination of the evidence that points directly at them and this EPIC FAILURE of and administration?

Perhaps Holder is runnin a bluff and when the heat gets hot enough offer to keep the trials in Military Court rather than NYC in exchange for a hush up of Fort Hood.

Is there anyone left that trusts this administration and their wild claims?
Jobs saved or created?
Lives saved by Healthscare?
Economic recovery in the midst of climbing unemployment?
H1N1 national crisis whenits no where near as dangerous as the regular flu?

This admin is packed with radicals and losers from the Clintoon Admin, the same folks who gave us 911!

God Help America!

AJ,

Follow the money.

The real question is how many other Major Hasan’s are there sending money back to Pakistan. If there is one of them, there are more of them.

Consider what a 2009 tech upgraded, Able Danger type, data sifting system can do with complete access to the world money transfers that pass through the American internet.

I suspect that the Obama Administration is highly sensitive to US Intelligence tracking and keeping records of cash transfers between Americans and foreigners.

Look closely at how the Obama for President 2008 campaign funded itself through unvetted internet donations.

Having American intelligence paying very close attention to all transnational money transfers leaves them as vulnerable as Elliot Spitzer and his whore.

Major Hasan is a flaming datum that the American intelligence money transfer tracking system set up by the Bush Administration has been crippled by the Obama Administration.

Assume these people are way in over their head and pathetic and the answer is clear. They think trying the 9-11 masterminds will make them look tough on terror, and they get to wipe the Ft Hood Massacre off the front pages.

I have to wonder…which judge will take up on these cases?

Andrew Cohen wrote an article attempting to dispel the reasons against holding the cases in Manhattan, NY. Did you read that? I disagree with him.

Amazing how so many people objected to Bush and the rest quiet.

Now when Eric Holder does something, the quiet ones come out of their nook and cranny to strongly object to his decisions and actions. He is getting lots of backlash on this one.

Question is…will he retreat on this one?

I had exactly the same thought. Word for word.

However, what I don’t get is ….Why then on Friday did Eric Holder go ahead with the announcement to prosecute the Gitmo terrorist in NY ?? It is obvious that this is being done to embarrass the Bush administration and our intelligent agencies.
I would think Obama & Holder would hold off on this announcement …….if nothing more than to use the Gitmo trials as a bargaining chip for a big fat cover-up of Hasan with the powers that be who do not agree with these civil trials.

Can someone help me out here ?? Why would the Obama administration announce the trials ….only to have to reverse themselves later ?? I would think announcing would get some intelligent officials, the FBI or the military pretty upset setting off more exposure to other embarrassing details about Hasan that the administration might not want out there in public ??

The dots don’t seem to add up for me ??

I wouldn’t be surprised in NY decision was ‘finalized’ after the terrorist attack.

President Barack Obama on Saturday urged Congress to hold off on any investigation of the Fort Hood rampage until federal law enforcement and military authorities have completed their probes into the shootings at the Texas Army post, which left 13 people dead. On an eight-day Asia trip, Obama turned his attention home and pleaded for lawmakers to “resist the temptation to turn this tragic event into the political theater.” He said those who died on the nation’s largest Army post deserve justice, not political stagecraft. “The stakes are far too high,”

MORALIZING OVER AND OVER AGAIN. This is not political, really, you mean don’t judge my administration just yet, we are only respecting first amendment rights, afforded to all citizens, something George Bush never did, Islamist deserve first amendments rights too. The dead deserve justice, what does that mean? They deserved to not get mowed down on an army base in their own country. That’s what they deserved. It is Obama’s politicking that got these guys killed. He needs to face it and be held accountable.

Obama is going to prove to the world he is better then George W. Bush, he tells us, he tells the whole world every time he opens his mouth that he is not George W. Bush. How many Americans have to die for this President?