Tuesday, November 24, 2009

BARACK OBAMA

John Bolton: 'This time it won't be the prosecution conducting the show trial, it will be the defense.'

This morning on the Washington Times morning radio program, former ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton indicated that he wouldn't have his family in New York during the KSM trial, and offered a different take than some, arguing that it would indeed be a show trial, but the defendants would be the ones putting on the show:

Host Melanie Morgan: Given the nature and danger of bringing these terrorists to American soil, where do you think is the most safe place to be when they get here and this trial begins? Where would you put your family?

John Bolton: Well, not New York City, I'm afraid to say. This is part of the callousness and the really, lack of professionalism and judgment to put them on trial anywhere in the United States in civilian courts. It's a major strategic blunder. It will give Khalid Sheik Mohammad and his co-defendants an opportunity, a la Joseph Stalin, to put on their own show trial in New York. This time it won't be the prosecution conducting the show trial, it will be the defense. Again, it shows the administration is not serious about the war on terrorism. It's a pre-9/11 law enforcement paradigm rather than the paradigm of a global war on terrorism which  I think the Bush administration correctly adopted with near-unanimous support in this country after 9/11.

11/24 09:01 AMShare