Speaking on the House floor last night, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) seemed to suggest that President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder urged self-professed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to change his plea to not guilty so he could be tried in New York.
This is an extremely important point. Again, the mastermind of 9-1-1, who achieved his goal of killing 3,000 innocent Americans in the World Trade Center bombing, he got his way. Why would we give him his way by bringing him to New York City, at over $200 million a year taxpayer expense, to give him a show trial when he has already plead guilty and already asked to be executed? What happened? Did the president, did the attorney general say to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, “Now wait a minute, you don’t want to plead guilty. Wait a minute you don’t want to be executed. You want to come to New York City. You want to have the trial just like you asked for in the first place. Why would we do that? Because the only message we’ll be sending to future terrorists will be, “You too can have a show trial in the city of your choice if you come to America.”
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