Our new President continues to weaken the US more and more. His latest move is to withdraw charges against the guy who masterminded the bombing of the USS Cole, a bombing in which 17 of our sailors were killed. AP
The Pentagon’s senior judge overseeing terror trials at Guantanamo Bay dropped charges Thursday against an al-Qaida suspect in the 2000 USS Cole bombing, upholding President Barack Obama‘s order to freeze military tribunals there.
The charges against suspected al-Qaida bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri marked the last active Guantanamo war crimes case.
The legal move by Susan J. Crawford, the top legal authority for military trials at Guantanamo, brings all cases into compliance with Obama’s Jan. 22 executive orderto halt terrorist court proceedings at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba.
Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said Crawford withdrew the charges against al-Nashiri. However, new charges can be brought again later, and al-Nashiri will remain in prison for the time being.
Groups representing victims’ families were angered by Obama’s order, charging they had waited too long already to see the alleged attackers brought to court.
“I was certainly disappointed with the decision to delay the military commissions process,” Lippold, now a defense adviser to Military Families United, said in an interview Thursday night. “We have already waited eight years. Justice delayed is justice denied. We must allow the military commission process to go forward.”
A reasonable way to handle this situation would have been to drop charges at the tribunal in gitmo, and immediately charge him under a court of competent jurisidiction, afterall, it’s not like this was a last minute thing?
This whole logic of baking cookies for and giving milk to people whose sole purpose in life is to bring about the total destruction of America is beyond me, but then again “he won”…
