Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) made an interesting point about civilian trials for terrorists in today’s hearing with Attorney General Eric Holder.
My observation, that I don’t want you to respond to, is, I don’t know how you can make a statement that failure to convict is not an option, when you got juries in this country. I think a lot of Americans thought O.J. Simpson oughta been convicted of murder rather than being in jail for what he’s in jail for. It seemed to me ludicrous. I’m a farmer, not a lawyer, but I just wanted to make an observation.
Holder interrupted Grassley’s following question in order to respond.
“As long as it doesn’t come out of my time,” Grassley muttered.
Holder assured Grassley that if a trial was unsuccessful and didn’t result in a conviction, the defendant would not be released in the U.S.
Video after the jump.
