Giuliani criticizes moving al Qaeda lawfare trials to New York
NY Times:
When you have a guy who is already trying to enter a guilty plea in a military tribunal, it makes no sense not to let him do so unless you want to go through the motions of a lawfare show trial in the largest media market in the world. And if military tribunals are alright for some detainees, why are they not alright to accept a guilty plea from the mass murderers of thousands of Americans?
Obama and his administration are just dead wrong on this issue and they are risking American lives and prestige by opting for their show trial. Clinton is just trying to defend the failed policies of her husbands administration in dealing with terrorism through lawfare instead of warfare.
Here is Giuliani on ABC:
Rudolph W. Giuliani, mayor of New York at the time of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, said on Sunday that the Obama administration’s decision to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-described mastermind of the attacks, in a civilian court in Manhattan would unnecessarily cost millions of dollars for security, create legal advantages for the defense and symbolically deny that the United States is at war with terrorism.Axelrod is a spin minister and not a lawyer or war strategist. The fact is that there is clear evidence that moving trials to New York is for show purposes and to appeal to the kook base of the Democrat party.
“It gives an unnecessary advantage to the terrorists and why would you want to give an advantage to the terrorists, and it poses risks for New York,” Mr. Giuliani said in an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union.” He also interviewed on ABC’s “This Week” and “Fox News Sunday.”
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Mr. Giuliani that said Mr. Mohammed and four other accused Sept. 11 co-conspirators should have also be tried by a military tribunal. But his criticism was shrugged off by Mrs. Clinton and David Axelrod, a top adviser to President Obama, in an appearance on the same program. He suggested that Mr. Giuliani was contradicting himself since he had on previous occasions voiced praise for trials for suspected terrorists in civilian courtrooms. “He may have changed his views but we haven’t changed ours,” Mr. Axelrod said.
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When you have a guy who is already trying to enter a guilty plea in a military tribunal, it makes no sense not to let him do so unless you want to go through the motions of a lawfare show trial in the largest media market in the world. And if military tribunals are alright for some detainees, why are they not alright to accept a guilty plea from the mass murderers of thousands of Americans?
Obama and his administration are just dead wrong on this issue and they are risking American lives and prestige by opting for their show trial. Clinton is just trying to defend the failed policies of her husbands administration in dealing with terrorism through lawfare instead of warfare.
Here is Giuliani on ABC:
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