Let me say a few words about the Moussaoui verdict.
I don’t believe in the death penalty, though I can certainly understand, and even feel, the desire for it in some cases.
But this whole case struck me as a crock, a sham, a tacit conspiracy between a Justice Department desperate to prosecute someone for 9/11 and a homicidal madman eager to be martyred for his role in an atrocity he actually didn’t have that much to do with.
Juliette Kayyem reads the tea leaves here and concludes, fairly convincingly I think, that at least three of the jurors decided that even though Moussaoui is a very bad guy, and probably would have loved to have been in on the plot, the government’s case was just bogus.
Life imprisonment sounds like the right punishment.
As for his “America, you lost. I won” that some people are so upset about, who cares what he says? I think we win because we’re showing we respect our laws.
