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Gus: Keep the 9/11 conspirators at GITMO
Posted Nov 17, 2009 by Tom Jackson
Updated Nov 17, 2009 at 06:40 PM
Assuming a bi-partisan posture and agreeing with New York’s Democratic Gov. David Paterson, U.S. Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-Palm Harbor) says the whole notion about bringing confessed 9/11 conspirators Khalid Sheikh Mohammed et al. from safekeeping at Guantanamo Bay to the Big Apple to be prosecuted in federal court is a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad idea.
A member of the House Homeland Security Committee, Bilirakis condemned U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s spectacularly ill-conceived and possibly duplicitous plan—presumably blessed by President Obama, who will delight in seeing the conspirators’ lawyers put the Bush administration on trial—on the House floor Tuesday. Said Bilirakis:
“I rise to express my outrage about President Obama’s decision to bring the terrorists being held at GITMO to American soil for prosecution in our criminal justice system.
“This dangerous decision will grant these detainees, including the admitted mastermind behind 9/11, constitutional rights to which they most certainly are not entitled.
“Prosecuting these detainees in our criminal courts also will raise the risk that they could be released on technicalities and force our soldiers to worry about things like reading captured combatants their so-called rights and preserving the chain of evidence.
“Madame Speaker, President Obama’s decision is a gamble that we simply do not need to take. These detainees are enemy fighters who should be tried in the military justice system, not in American courtrooms.”
Bingo.
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