Mona Charen : Unpacking Obama's Rationale on Terrorists - Townhall.com: "Is there an organizing principle behind the Obama administration's decisions on dealing with accused terrorists?
Announcing that Khalid Sheik Mohammad, mastermind of 9/11, and four co-conspirators, would be granted a civilian trial in Manhattan while the U.S.S. Cole bombers would receive a military tribunal, Attorney General Eric Holder was bombastic but opaque. 'For over two hundred years,' he intoned, 'our nation has relied on a faithful adherence to the rule of law to bring criminals to justice ...' How did he decide who got a federal civilian court with its lavish legal protections and who got a military tribunal? It was a case-by-case determination, he explained, depending upon 'the nature of the offense, the location in which the offense occurred, the identity of the victims, and the manner in which the case was investigated.' Not a legal principle to found in there anywhere."
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