The KSM Show Trial

by J.R. Dunn - November 24th, 2009 - American Thinker

AG Eric Holder's statement that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will remain in custody no matter what the verdict in his upcoming Manhattan trial, coupled with Obama's instructions to the jury that KSM be "convicted and executed", reveals the entire exercise as a show trial, a ritual effort intended not to achieve justice, but to make a public political point. The question is, what could that point possibly be?

What is the point? It is of course to humiliate America, our previous President, George W. Bush and the Republican Party. It is most assuredly not to prove what a great justice system we have. Our justice system is a joke, proven by the fact that this trial will take place.