Does “who he is” make the statement untrue?
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I don’t “fear” them being tried anywhere. I just don’t think it is the proper way to handle it. I think it is strictly a political move by Dems and Liberals to put the previous Administration on trial. I think they are perfectly willing to run the risk that one or more of these people get off on some technicality if the net result is the previous Administration is embarrassed or in some way discredited or indicted.
Do you honestly not think Lawyers for these whack jobs are NOT going to attempt to subpoena Bush and Cheney? Of COURSE you understand that. That is precisely what you want.
” As he likely decides to send more troops to Afghanistan and eyes abandoning the “public option” to secure Senate passage of his health-care plan, Obama has to rebuild his credibility on the left. A public circus that focuses on waterboarding and interrogations could be just what he wants and needs.” ~Dick Morris
]]>As for the Muslim world, here’s what the Imam that the Fort Hood shooter confided in has to say about his actions:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,575242,00.html?test=latestnews
“The imam told Shaea that the Fort Hood attack was acceptable under Islam. ‘America was the one who first brought the battle to Muslim countries,’ al-Awlaki said.
Al-Awlaki also denounced Muslims who condemned the attack. ‘They say American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan should be killed,’ the imam argued, ‘so how can they say the American soldier should not be killed at the moment they are going to Iraq and Afghanistan?’”
I don’t have a solution to this problem. However, I live by the rule that “you get what you put your attention on”. As much as repubs seem to be attacking this idea as bad, dems are using repub attacks to disparage repubs. It’s just another political football. Once again, we’re getting kicked back and forth by people who just want to control the game.
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On August 16, 2001, Moussaoui was arrested by Harry Samit of the FBI and INS agents in Minnesota and charged with an immigration violation[15]. Materials itemized when he was arrested included a laptop computer, two knives, flight manuals pertaining to Boeing’s 747 aircraft, a flight simulator computer program, fighting gloves and shin guards, and a computer disk with information about crop dusting.[15]
Some agents worried that his flight training had violent intentions, so the Minnesota bureau tried to get permission (sending over 70 emails in a week) to search his laptop, but they were turned down.[16] FBI agent Coleen Rowley made an explicit request for permission to search Moussaoui’s personal rooms. This request was first denied by her superior, Deputy General Counsel Marion “Spike” Bowman, and later rejected based upon FISA regulations (amended after 9/11 by the USA Patriot Act). Several further search attempts similarly failed.
FBI watchdog Sen. Chuck Grassley, Republican-Iowa, later wrote to FBI Director Robert Mueller:
If the application for the FISA warrant had gone forward, agents would have found information in Moussaoui’s belongings that linked him both to a major financier of the hijacking plot working out of Germany, and to a Malaysian al-Qaida boss who had met with at least two other hijackers while under surveillance by intelligence officials.
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