Bombs And Circuses In New York
The Bear on Nov 20 2009 at 9:00 am | Filed under: Global War on Terrorism
Terrorism: “Live from New York,” the trials of the 9/11 conspirators will be a media freak show that paints a giant bull’s-eye on the Big Apple. Worse, it will provide al-Qaida with national secrets.
Why have the president and his attorney general decided to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and a handful of other 9/11 schemers in a courthouse a short walk from Ground Zero?
Don’t joke that “if they can make it there, they can make it anywhere!” National Review’s Andrew McCarthy, who led the prosecution against the 1993 World Trade Center terrorists, reminds us that Khalid and his co-terrorists could exploit the Constitution’s Sixth Amendment right to self-representation.
America could then be faced with this choice: Let the terrorists serve as their own lawyers and be allowed reams of national security material — or deny them that right and risk the case being thrown out on Sixth Amendment grounds.
McCarthy warns that Khalid and the others “can and will demand discovery of mountains of government intelligence. They will demand disclosures about investigative tactics; the methods and sources by which intelligence has been obtained; the witnesses from the intelligence community, the military, and law enforcement who interrogated witnesses, conducted searches, secretly intercepted enemy communications, and employed other investigative techniques.”
Without being represented by counsel sworn not to reveal national security secrets, these murderers will pass on all that information to al-Qaida, as happened in the 1993 Trade Center trial.
9-11 Families Speak Out Against Obama’s Terror Trial Decision
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.
