Attorney General Eric Holder today blasted Congress for inappropriately interfering in the decision over how to try Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, arguing that a federal trial would have provided the best outcome but that Congress compelled him to move forward with a military commission trial instead.
The attorney general lamented that the Mohammad case, since its beginning, has been “marked by needless controversy.”
“The prosecution of Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and his co-conspirators should never have been about settling ideological arguments or scoring political points,” he said.
Holder announced today that Mohammad would be tried in a military commission because political interference had impeded efforts to set up a federal trial and justice for the victims of 9/11 has been “long overdue and must not be delayed any further.”
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He scolded Congress for suggesting that the federal court system could not handle a terrorism case.
How many more days before we can throw these buffoons out of Washington?
this is the same Holder that forced Elian Gonzalez back to Cuba…….
Doesn’t his comments give the defense an opening to declare “unfair trial”?