White House aides are increasingly convinced that 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will never face trial in a civilian court and are trying to cut a deal that would still transfer Guantanamo Bay terrorism suspects to the US.Obama is trying to keep a campaign pledge to close the US military prison in Cuba, a promise that has attracted harsh criticism from Republicans who say it would jeopardize national security. And lately, without surprise, he has come under fire from people within his own party who say he should not accept any deal that would prosecute Mohammed outside the normal judicial system.
In my opinion, Obama's main goal here is to close Gitmo and to try as many detainees as possible on US soil. As ridiculous as that is, to accomplish that he will need to abandon his plan to prosecute the 9/11 conspirators in civilian courts and instead send them before military tribunals.
Our old friend Sen. Linsey Graham, as was posted in a previous post, is behind the "DEAL", as he seems very eager to close Gitmo for some unknown idiotic reason.
One question that crosses my mind is; What does BO plan on doing with the detainees who, because of evidence problems or other reasons, cannot be successfully prosecuted in either tribunals or civilian courts, but are obviously too dangerous to be released?
They could soon be living your neighborhood. Think about it!
