By trying to defend the Constitution we are aiding terrorism?

This is exactly how the loony left thinks. They think we are the terrorists. They are more afraid of those who want to uphold and support our founding father than they are of those in the Mid East who would strap bombs onto themselves to kill innocent lives. This just plain sickens me.

Obama finally smartening up about Khalid Sheik Mohammed

Instead of a civilian trial advisers to Obama are going to recommend a military tribunal.

President Obama's advisers are nearing a recommendation that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, be prosecuted in a military tribunal, administration officials said, a step that would reverse Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s plan to try him in civilian court in New York City.

The president's advisers feel increasingly hemmed in by bipartisan opposition to a federal trial in New York and demands, mainly from Republicans, that Mohammed and his accused co-conspirators remain under military jurisdiction, officials said. While Obama has favored trying some terrorism suspects in civilian courts as a symbol of U.S. commitment to the rule of law, critics have said military tribunals are the appropriate venue for those accused of attacking the United States.

If Obama accepts the likely recommendation of his advisers, the White House may be able to secure from Congress the funding and legal authority it needs to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and replace it with a facility within the United States. The administration has failed to meet a self-imposed one-year deadline to close Guantanamo.

This sounds great, but why the change? I for one don't exactly trust Obama.

I don't think this is a national security decision. If Obama actually cared about National Security he would have never let the idea of trying KSM as a civilian. It would have been a military tribunal from the word go. I think this is all political.

Obama knows the majority of the people care about America. They care about our national security. And they think that trying KSM as a civilian would make a spectacle of the Islamic terrorists.

It's a good thing Obama finally made the right decision regarding KSM. It just shouldn't have taken him this long.

Democrats tried to push through a pro-terrorist bill

Luckily the Republicans wouldn't let the bill go through. Just shows all of us how serious the Democrats are about defending America. They care more about the terrorists than they do about us American citizens.

What’s more, the proposed bill is directed at “any officer or employee of the intelligence community” conducting a “covered interrogation.” The definition of “covered interrogation” is sweeping — including any interrogation done outside the U.S., in the course of a person’s official duties on behalf of the government. Thus, if the CIA used waterboarding in training its officers or military officers outside the U.S., this would theoretically be indictable conduct under the statute.

Waterboarding is not all. The Democrats’ bill would prohibit — with a penalty of 15 years’ imprisonment — the following tactics, among others:

- “Exploiting the phobias of the individual”

- Stress positions and the threatened use of force to maintain stress positions

- “Depriving the individual of necessary food, water, sleep, or medical care”

- Forced nudity

- Using military working dogs (i.e., any use of them — not having them attack or menace the individual; just the mere presence of the dog if it might unnerve the detainee and, of course, “exploit his phobias”)

- Coercing the individual to blaspheme or violate his religious beliefs (I wonder if Democrats understand the breadth of seemingly innocuous matters that jihadists take to be violations of their religious beliefs)

- Exposure to “excessive” cold, heat or “cramped confinement” (excessive and cramped are not defined)

- “Prolonged isolation”

- “Placing hoods or sacks over the head of the individual”

Naturally, all of these tactics are interspersed with such acts as forcing the performance of sexual acts, beatings, electric shock, burns, inducing hypothermia or heat injury — as if all these acts were functionally equivalent.

Sad...just so very sad.

Reason number, well too high to count the number,..

Why I hate political correctness. This is just unbelievable, well I guess with liberalism nothing is unbelievable. But I've long said the TSA agents should be focusing on those who have tried to blow us up in the past. Which are Muslim men aged 18-34, not disabled children aged 4.

Just when I thought I was out of the Transportation Security Administration business for a few columns, they pull me back in.

Did you hear about the Camden cop whose disabled son wasn't allowed to pass through airport security unless he took off his leg braces?

Unfortunately, it's no joke. This happened to Bob Thomas, a 53-year-old officer in Camden's emergency crime suppression team, who was flying to Orlando in March with his wife, Leona, and their son, Ryan.

So why would anyone with an once of common sense think this is right? Was this little boy really a threat? How many 53 year old cops have tried to hi-jack any planes? I mean really?

Innocent until proven guilty?

If we are giving rights to terrorists and giving them civilian trials than how can Robert Gibbs, Obama's press secretary, say we are going to execute Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. I want him executed so that isn't the problem with me. The problem is if we are going to treat them like citizens and give them rights won't this influence public opinion and then they won't be able to get a fair trial?

The Obama administration said Sunday it would consider local opposition when deciding where to hold Sept. 11 terror trials and pledged to seek swift justice for the professed mastermind of the attacks.

"Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is going to meet justice and he's going to meet his maker," said President Barack Obama's press secretary, Robert Gibbs. "He will be brought to justice and he's likely to be executed for the heinous crimes that he committed in killing and masterminding the killing of 3,000 Americans. That you can be sure of."

It is kind of hard to have a "fair" trial, like they want to do, if judgment has already been made. This is why they should be tried in a military tribunal where everything will be done in secret. It won't be made a public spectacle. And not only that it will be hundred of millions of dollars cheaper.

Is this an alternate universe?

Diane Feinstien??? Really???

She actually said something I agree with.

President Barack Obama should order the trial for Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and other accused terrorists moved out of New York City, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said Thursday.

Feinstein, the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is the highest-ranking Democrat to urge the administration to reverse course on its decision to bring the terror leaders to Manhattan for trial.

"In my view, from an intelligence perspective, I think the situation has changed with the Christmas attack," Feinstein said on MSNBC, citing confidential intelligence briefings.

Well just when I thought she was starting to get it...I was wrong.

"There are other places to try it in the U.S. that are much more remote, much less a target, and much less a squatting ground for propaganda around the world," Feinstein explained, though she declined to suggest to where else the administration might move the trials.

They should be tried in a military tribunal and not in civilian court. These terrorists aren't American citizens. They don't have Constitutional rights. This should not be a public trial and they should not get a court appointed lawyer and most importantly they should not be allowed to look into the governments classified intelligence.

But just when I thought a liberal like Diane Feistein was getting I was wrong. Liberals really don't care about our nations security. If they did they wouldn't give terrorists rights and allow those would want to slaughter our way of life the chance to make a spectacle out of this trial.