Alice Holder

I can't help myself.

1. Holder wants KSM tried in Federal District Court

2. To restore our image in the world as just and fair and open

3. By affording KSM the rights of any criminal defendant in an Article III court

4. Including the presumption of innocence

5. But without even the possible risk of an acquittal

6. Because the evidence is so strong and the prosecutors so wonderful that

7. "Failure is not an option."

Way to achieve your goal, Holder!

The world probably already loves our Wonderland justice:

"Sentence first. Verdict later."

Eric Holder Gets Owned

The Congressional hot seat completely melted the Attorney General Eric Holder today. Asked to defend his moronic, unprecedented, nonsensical, and reckless decision to try the 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM) in a NY federal court as if he were a garden-variety criminal, Holder uh, well, he umm, uh, well, watch for yourself:



Andy McCarthy, a former U.S. Attorney who knows a thing or two about this topic (he successfully prosecuted the Blind Sheik in the aftermath of the WTC bombings) responded to Holder's performance in front of the Committee today:

"What made the United States most vulnerable in the Nineties was our enemies' perception that they were at war and we were not. They gave us bombs and death, we gave them rights. That encouraged them to attack us more often and more audaciously — which is exactly what they did. If we are at war, and the Attorney General said this morning that we are, we have to treat it like a war. Pressed by Sen. Graham, the AG could not name a single time when, during war, we captured an enemy combatant outside the U.S. and brought him into the United States for a civilian trial — vesting him with all the rights of an American citizen. That's because that hasn't happened. That's not how you treat wartime enemies.

Further, if we are going to have military commissions at all (and Holder says we will continue to have them), it makes no sense to transfer the worst war criminals to the civilian system. Doing so tells the enemy that they will get more rights if they mass-murder civilians."

This decision is wrong on so many levels, and I would invite anyone who reads this who thinks this is a smart move to try and do a better job defending it than the AG himself did today.