Dick Morris, Eileen McGann: Obama’s effort to downgrade the war on teror to a criminal-justice prosecution
Dick Morris, Eileen McGann: “In an ABC interview on Monday, Sen. Barack Obama URGED US TO GO BACK TO THE ERA OF CRIMINAL-JUSTICE PROSECUTION OF TERROR SUSPECTS, citing the successful efforts to imprison those who bombed the World Trade Center in 1993.”
Morris, McGann: “It was key to his attack on the Bush administration, which he charged, has ‘been willing to skirt basic protections that are in our Constitution… It is my firm belief that we can crack down on threats against the United States, but we can do so within the constraints of our Constitution’ “
Obama: “In previous terrorist attacks — for example, the first attack against the World Trade Center, we were able to arrest those responsible, put them on trial. They are currently in US prisons, incapacitated.”
Morris, McGann: “THIS IS BIG — BECAUSE THAT PROSECUTION, AND THE GROUND RULES FOR IT, HAD MORE TO DO WITH OUR INABILITY TO AVERT 9/11 THAN ANY OTHER SINGLE FACTOR.”