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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (530625)	11/19/2009 12:57:18 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576926

KSM pled guilty before a military court but Obama decided to reject it because of ACLU influence. freerepublic.com --------------------------------------------- .... In court Monday, Army Colonel Stephen Henley, military judge at Guantanamo, read a letter from the five jihadists saying that “the accused in this case had decided that they wished to withdraw all [defense] motions... and wished to enter pleas in what was termed as confessions in this case.” ..... The finality of that statement, however, didn’t mollify the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, Anthony Romero. “It is absurd,” he said Monday, “to accept a guilty plea from people who were tortured and waterboarded.” (Mohammed was the most famous recipient of the waterboarding technique.) He called into question the legitimacy of the whole proceeding, saying: “The question for us is whether we want to lend a patina of legitimacy to this legal farce.” If Henley accepts the guilty pleas, however, there might not be much room left for the ACLU to maneuver: Romero told the Washington Post that acceptance of the pleas would make it extremely difficult for the Obama administration to move the case to federal court. ..... humanevents.com Well, it didn't turn out to be so difficult after all .... they just did away with the proceedings in which KSM and his fellows had pled guilty and have insisted on giving them a trial in NYC. The guilty plea is not binding. They'll have civilian lawyers from the ACLU and possibly from Holder's old law firm advising them to fight the charges.