Family Members of 9/11 Victims Storm Out of Meeting with KSM Defense Team

[Geee]

Free Beacon:

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE—Years of anger and frustration reached a dramatic boiling point on Wednesday evening when one of the 9/11 victim’s relatives told a defense lawyer for terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to “go f%@# yourself.”

 

Military proceedings for the accused terrorists being held at Guantanamo Bay came to an abrupt halt on Tuesday following revelations that the FBI had launched an investigation into what they claim is the defense team’s improper dissemination of several writings penned by Mohammed.

 

The hearings are set to resume early Thursday morning so that the prosecution can appoint a special appointee to deal with the fallout from the FBI investigation.

[Valin]

I have a small question....Why is this waste of genetic material still breathing?

[Valin]

The FBI Is Not Sabotaging the 9/11 Military Commission
The administration still wants civilian prosecution, but the Bureau’s leak investigation is legit.
Andrew C. McCarthy
4/19/14

It is no secret that the Obama administration believes Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other 9/11 plotters should be given a civilian criminal trial in New York City, not a military commission in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The president pulled the plug on military commissions at the start of his first term (only to reinstate them later). The Justice Department announced in 2009 that KSM & Co. would be tried in Manhattan, provoking vigorous protest by the public and Congress that prompted the administration to back down. Attorney General Holder has repeatedly said the case should be in civilian court — even claiming that if the transfer to Manhattan from the military justice system had gone according to his plan, the terrorists would already be convicted and facing the death penalty.

 

(Snip)

 

But is the Justice Department trying to get the case to civilian court by willfully sabotaging the ongoing military commission?

 

That is the suspicion of a number of family members of those killed in the 9/11 atrocities. It has been stoked by the revelation this week that the FBI has been investigating the Gitmo defendants and their legal representatives for possible intelligence leaks — a revelation that appears to have taken the military prosecutors and the presiding judge by surprise, stoking fears that the commission trial process could be imperiled.

 

(Snip)