President Obama failed to bring Khalid Shaikh Muhammad to trial. Tim McVeigh experienced reasonably swift justice yet the mastermind of the 9-11 massacre and author of confusion for economics circa 2001 generally has enjoyed better than 8 years at various U.S. interrogation and detention centers worldwide with more than 6 years of residence at the Guantanamo Bay detention center.
I suppose it is a sticky wicket for the Obama administration- they sought to give KMH a televised platform in New York City for a civil trial where he might have made many speeches representing himself as his own lawyer. No wonder the seals shot Oz bin Laden as he stuck his head out the hall to see what's up instead of taking him into custody for decades of confinement.
Recently I read a book titled 'The Hunt for KSM'. It's a good informative read providing a good history of the engineer who designed so many terrorist ops worldwide including 9-11. He was arrested in Karachi Pakistan in 2003 and yet even today it is believed that some of his operatives remain as 'sleepers' in the U.S.A. and elsewhere.
Apparently the F.B.I. was kicked out of interrogating KSM and getting legally useful evidence for trial and instead KSM was given over to private contractors hired by the C.I.A. to waterboard and otherwise torture the perp in locales abroad and little of that evidence is useful for trial. The Bush administration reloading of the U.S. foreign intelligence community was accomplished at great cost yet it produced results that shut down much of the terrorist network created or coordinated by KSM. That network was independent of Al Qa'eda yet worked with it.
K.S.M. executed Daniel Pearl while in Karachi. He beheaded him on camera. K.S.M bought Daniel Pearl for $50,000 from a Pakistani kidnapper who realized he had got in over his head.
While it is generally a bad idea to hire lawyers to be the President of the United States one does expect them to be legal red tape cutters finding a way to conclude prosecution of mass murderers of the stature of KSM.
In 2004 the C.I.A. began tracking a courier of KMH's that also worked for bin Laden. Following that trail eventually led to Oz's location in the bosom of the Pakistan military community.
That the President has failed to conclude the KSM chapter in his first term dwarfs the termination of Osama bin Laden.
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