Liberals warn Obama against flip-flopping on terror trials

eric-holderLiberal progressives aren’t happy about the trial balloon floated by Obama about not sending terrorist scum like KSM to the U.S. for trials, and instead doing the right thing by having them go through military tribunals. According to the Daily Caller, libnuts like Glenn Greenwald denounced the proposal, accusing the White House of favoring political expediency over the rule of law. Greenwald compared the decision to the the alleged politicization of the Department of Justice under President Bush and cited several instances in which Obama has reversed his position on national security issues to avoid being labeled soft on terror.

“Although they will try, it will be extremely difficult even for his most devoted loyalists to deny the fundamental cowardice of Barack Obama,” wrote Greenwald. “Even just as a political matter, is there any better way to ensure that Americans will view him as weak than by abandoning one key decision after the next as a result of the slightest pressure? What kind of person could possibly admire a ‘leader’ who does this?”

Another libnut, Ken Gude from the heavily George Soros funded Center of American Progress agreed the trade-off makes little sense for the White House politically or from a legal standpoint.

“The political calculation that caving on the 9/11 trial will ensure or even ease the path to close Guantanamo is deeply flawed. Any deal that would gain Sen. Graham’s support will surely lose many more Democratic votes and I am extremely skeptical that Sen. Graham would be able to bring any other Republicans with him, especially as Sen. McConnell has already telegraphed his political strategy of absolute opposition to Obama’s counterterrorism policies,” Gude said.

The primary source of the liberal anger comes from the belief that Obama would be sacrificing the moral high ground and jeopardizing the country’s standing in the international community.

“Politics aside, this is about doing what’s right. Military commissions are virtually untested and woefully unprepared for the complex and challenging 9/11 case that includes nearly 3,000 counts of murder. A criminal trial for the 9/11 plotters is in the best interests of the United States,” Gude said.

“[The president] can’t continue to vacillate over matters of American values,” Murphy said. “These go to core of what makes America different — how you detain people, whether you torture them, how you prosecute them. These are the very issues that separated us from Great Britain.”


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March 7, 2010 · Filed Under Terrorism, eric holder

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