The Obama administration appears to have abandoned plans to put Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and four co-conspirators on trial in Lower Manhattan, according to administration sources.
“It seems less and less likely” that the trial will take place in New York, according to a senior administration official.
The administration was facing a surge of political opposition to hosting the trial in New York. That opposition crystallized in recent days when New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, an early supporter of holding the trial in the city, said the security and financial costs were too great.
In a letter to the president Friday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairman of the Intelligence Committee, said a New York trial heightens the risk of a terrorist attack.
“Without getting into classified details, I believe we should view the attempted Christmas Day plot as a continuation, not an end, of plots to strike the United States by al-Qaeda and its affiliates,” Feinstein said. “Moreover, New York City has been a high-priority target since at least the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993. The trial of the most significant terrorist in custody would add to the threat.”
She told the president in the letter that he has “the flexibility to move this trial to a less prominent, less costly, and equally secure location.”
Administration officials said they remain committed to putting Mohammed and the other defendants (who are currently held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba) on trial in federal court, not in a military commission as some in Congress have been demanding.
That commitment was welcomed by proponents of using the federal courts to try terrorist suspects.
“As long as these trials occur in federal criminal courts with proper due-process protections, the actual venue doesn’t matter very much,” said Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. “All of our federal courts are equipped and able to handle such cases. That’s where they belong and that’s where they should stay.”
Oh well,
Shon Jimenez
- Obama began his remarks on a conciliatory note, telling Republicans he expects them to “challenge my ideas,” and: “Having differences of opinion, having a real debate about matters of domestic policy and national security, that’s something that’s not only good for our country, it’s absolutely essential.”
- He urged Republicans to come to the table and work with him on policy compromises, saying Americans “didn’t send us to Washington to fight each other in some political steel cage match.” What voters don’t want, he said, is “for Washington to continue being so Washington-like.”
- But the president also challenged the House GOP. “We have seen some party-line votes that have been disappointing,” he said, recalling the stimulus fight. “I didn’t understand then, and I still don’t understand, why we got opposition in this caucus for almost $300 billion in badly needed tax cuts for the American people” and other assistance and infrastructure projects. Obama jabbed: “Let’s face it, some of you have been at the ribbon-cuttings for some of these important projects in your communities.”
- Continuing on a confrontational tack, Obama defended key components of his agenda, including the proposed fee on bailed-out banks – telling Minority Leader John Boehner: “If you listen to the American people, John, they’ll tell you they want their money back.” And while he conceded that the health care debate had become “bitter and contentious,” Obama stuck to his basic position: “If anyone here truly believes our health insurance system is working well for people, I respect your right to say so, but I don’t agree.”
- At the end of his remarks – before taking questions – Obama told Republicans it’s time to make a choice between aiming for “success at the polls” or “lasting success” for the country. “Just think about it for a while,” he said. “We don’t have to put it up for a vote today.”
Same B.S. different day.
Shon Jimenez

They want more subsidies to help low and moderate income Americans buy health coverage, and altogether these changes could increase the cost of the health care overhaul by $300 billion over the next ten years — another lie — bringing it to a total of $1.2 trillion, according to a Senate Democratic aide. It would actually be $2.8 trillion if you factor this without any accounting gimmicks. So, folks, I’m telling you, they’re working on this behind closed doors in the House, they’re trying to scheme. I guarantee you this is what happens in Cuba, this is what happens in Venezuela, this is what dictators do. And he told us last night, “I’m not a quitter, I’m not quitting.” He’s going to do whatever he can to get this stuff done, to hell with what we think, or want.
Chris Matthews said while he was watching the lecture he forgot Obama was black for an hour. He forgot Obama was black for an hour. I forgot he was president for an hour. I watched a community agitator and not a very good one. I saw a guy that’s angry. I saw a guy that’s defiant. And Nancy Pelosi, she missed her calling. She’s up and down, a Jack in the Box. She should have been a trained seal at Sea World the way she was behaving last night. She and Biden and everybody color coordinated in purple. I don’t know, folks, be serious here for a second.

It was the town meetings. They started hustling trying to get health care done before the August recess. The third: “Most devoutly of all, the Obama team believed that there was something singular about the president’s appeal and ability to inspire.” Now, this is in The Politico, and these are the first three things that went wrong. So they believed he was The Messiah, that the Porkulus bill was gonna presage the passage of everything else, and that America had undergone a seismic change. But there’s actually a fourth, ladies and gentlemen. Now, you know that I have manners. I was raised properly with a great set of core values, and one of those is to not brag. And, of course, it ain’t bragging if you’ve done it. It ain’t bragging if you can do it. I think it was Babe Ruth who said that. But as you know, I do not like talking about myself. I’m very uncomfortable with that.
From the Rush Limbaugh Radio Program
Shon Jimenez

As said by Rush Limbaugh
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A United Nations climate expert is admitting that there could be more errors in his report. Mistakes were made, but can’t we all just move on? Everything that the left is involved in is being exposed here for what it is: one hundred percent lies and a hoax. “The Indian head of the UN climate change panel defended his position yesterday even as further errors were identified in the panel’s assessment of Himalayan glaciers.” This is Rajendra Pachauri. Now, he may be Indian, but he went to school and taught, I believe in North Carolina, and he’s not a climate scientist.

He’s an economist. All of this is about money.
“Dr Rajendra Pachauri dismissed calls for him to resign over the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change’s retraction of a prediction that Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035. But he admitted that there may have been other errors in the same section of the report, and said that he was considering whether to take action against those responsible. ‘I know a lot of climate skeptics are after my blood, but I’m in no mood to oblige them,’ he told The Times in an interview. ‘It was a collective failure by a number of people,’ he said. ‘I need to consider what action to take, but that will take several weeks. It’s best to think with a cool head, rather than shoot from the hip.’” This sounds like the people in the Obama administration on the Sunday shows after getting hammered with bad news last week, how they respond to any crisis when they screw up like Fort Hood and the Christmas bomber, the Fruit of Kaboom Bomber (and soon Haiti).
Now, don’t forget, the IPCC’s 2007 report won the Nobel Peace Prize along with Algore. “But it emerged last week that the forecast was based not on a consensus among climate change experts, but on a media interview with a single Indian glaciologist in 1999.” A single interview with a single Indian glaciologist! This is almost like these e-mails that we have now learned used tree rings from one tree in a Siberian forest to show that the hockey stick warming curve was accurate. These people are frauds from the get-go. Now the Himalayan glaciers are not going to melt by 2035. There are five glaring errors in the relevant section, and this is just more icing on the cake for this program here, this whole movement, which has been around in intense focus since the early 1980s. I, frankly, couldn’t be happier about how it’s being exposed. Fudging the data, making up the data because they want their statist, big-government-control-over-everybody agenda implemented, and they can’t do it with genuine science, so they’re trying to scare everybody into doing it.
As said by Rush Limbaugh
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As Democrats applauded, cameras showed the justices sitting expressionless. Except Alito.
“Not true, not true,” he appeared to say, as he shook his head.
The president’s swipe at the Supreme Court was a breach of decorum, and represents the worst of Washington politics — scapegoating ’special interest’ boogeyman for all that ails Washington in attempt to silence the diverse range of speakers in our democracy.
And guess what? It only took Obama a minute into his speech to blame Bush for something. How can we move forward when Obama lives in the past.

But that would be to logical, to easy. Obama can’t do that; he’d be cutting the throats of all his big shot lawyer friends. Where would he get his campaign money from? In 9 months Obama has had 12, count them, 12 fundraisers. Bush had 6 in 12 months. Of course, Robert Gibbs comes to the rescue and says that’s because Obama won’t take Pac money. Hey Obama, quit fundraising and do your job. Our economy sucks and I need a job.

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