re: #124 Dark_Falcon

Then I hope Senator web battles the leftist who think that way with courage and convict. He’s right of this issue, and it’s good see that there are still Democrats with a proper understanding of national security.

Well the left are too busy reducing all criticisms from all quarters to being :

1) irrational fear that KSM will escape and kill 3,000 people, and

2) authoritarian impulse that shows a hatred for democracy and justice.

No ability to engage on the idea that terrorism exploits mass communications in the first place (they get vast exposure for killing a few people) and that handing them a multi-month public trial where discovery and evidentiary issues will constantly put the manner in which evidence was collected on trial. And at that point, these high minded moralists must step forward (if they want to bring consistency to their moral claims) and seek exclusion of a variety of things -

1) KSM was not mirandized when the Pakistanis captured him
2) There was not an extradition treaty between Pakistan and the US at the time
3) That his rendition to the CIA was probably illegal in terms of a rendition for a criminal matter (he should have been turned over to the FBI as a criminal)
4) That his Al Jazera “confession” to being the master mind of 9/11 is about as credible as this “smoking gun.” Ever heard of a tout from an egomaniac? Any claims are just claims unless they can be corroborated. And when evidence that corroborates comes from the “cascade of intelligence” that followed KSMs waterboarding it is subject to exclusion.

But hey - let’s bask in moral purity of the moment much like SoCons did when they made fucking stupid policy decisions like Stem Cell bans.