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Holder holding KSM death penalty hostage for 9/11 civilian trial? (Update: plug these other damn holes!)

by Tim Sumner @ Monday, July 12th, 2010. Filed under 9/11, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Gitmo, Guantanamo, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Military Commissions, USS Cole, al-Nashiri

One April 21, 2010, I took issue with this (now repeated) assertion by Attorney General Eric Holder before the Senate Judiciary Committee:
ATTORNEY GENERAL ERIC HOLDER: Yes. In an Article III court, a person can plead guilty to a capital offense; that is not allowed in a military commission.
In fact, 949i(b) of the Military Commissions Act [...]

Obama and the 9/11 Families; The president isn’t sincere about ’swift and certain’ justice for terrorists

by Debra Burlingame @ Friday, May 8th, 2009. Filed under 9/11, Abu Ghraib, Barack Obama, Binyam Mohamed, Blind Sheikh, Clinton, Debra Burlingame, ETIM, East Turkistan Islamic Movement, Eric Holder, February 26 1993, Gitmo, Guantanamo, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Military Commissions, OLC memos, Osama bin Laden, September 11, USS Cole, World Trade Center, Yemen, al Marri, al-Nashiri, detainees, dirty bomber, torture

In February I was among a group of USS Cole and 9/11 victims’ families who met with the president at the White House to discuss his policies regarding Guantanamo detainees. Although many of us strongly opposed Barack Obama’s decision to close the detention center and suspend all military commissions, the families of the 17 sailors [...]

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