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Pentagon Set to Politicize 9/11 Trial

Posted by Amanda Terkel, Think Progress at 9:18 AM on May 30, 2008.


The Pentagon is pushing 9/11 trials for McCain's political advantage.
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Despite the fact that defense attorneys for five suspected al Qaeda members being held at Guantanamo Bay have not yet received security clearances from the Pentagon that would allow them to participate in hearings, the Bush administration is aggressively pushing ahead with the prosecutions. The lawyers also claim that so far, they have had only a few hours to meet with their clients and have not had time to sufficiently “prepare a defense” in the death penalty cases.

A newly released e-mail, dated May 27, shows a civilian member of the prosecution team suggesting a trial date of Sept. 15:

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As the attorneys write in their brief asking the military judge to dismiss the charges against the detainees, “Not coincidentally, the Prosecution has now proposed a trial schedule that would force the trial of this case in mid-September, some seven weeks before the general election.” The Miami Herald notes the additional political significance of Sept. 15:

The date, in fact, is 10 days after Sen. John McCain, an architect of Military Commissions law, is expected to be officially nominated as the Republican presidential candidate at the GOP national convention in St. Paul, Minn.

In October, Air Force Col. Morris Davis, formerly the lead prosecutor for terrorism trials at Guantanamo Bay, also revealed that he was pressured to pursue “sexy” cases, instead of ones that were the most solid. “There was a big concern that the election of 2008 is coming up,” Davis said. “People wanted to get the cases going.”

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These "trials" are a farce and a disgrace
Posted by: LeftWright on May 30, 2008 9:38 AM   
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The "war on terror" is a fraud.

"Al Qaeda" is a code name for a western intelligence operation according to Turkish intelligence.

There is "no hard evidence linking Osama bin Laden to 9/11" according to our own FBI.

The FBI has never investigated the crimes of 9/11/01 and they have never even proved that there were any "hijackers" on the planes.

The events of 9/11/01 remain uninvestigated and this is a travesty to all those who lost loved ones on that day, the 40,000+ people suffering from the dust of the demolished WTC complex in NYC, and all those killed and maimed in the fraudulent war on terror in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.

Do the research, brothers and sisters, and then get active!

The truth shall set us free. Love is the only way forward.

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Sickening
Posted by: QQOblivion on May 30, 2008 9:58 AM   
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Another point of significance for the suggested date of the trial, obviously: It is just days after September 11th.

These people in the Bush administration have always been using the September 11th attacks for political reasons to a SICKENING degree! And they continue still to do so.

And, by the way, anyone who still believes that these "terrorists" are actually guilty and will get a fair trial, well, you are so idiotic and out of touch that you probably don't even know how to drool. Go watch Fox, and don't wet yourselves, jackasses!
I'm sorry I am so pissed. But dumb people who support the Bush administration are what is wrong with America.

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The Adolf Bush Dog&Pony Show continues...
Posted by: channing on May 30, 2008 1:00 PM   
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Just like his business dealings, when Adolf Bush can't get his way legally On-Shore, he moves it Off-Shore. What International Laws say about this is irrelevant to Adolf Bush, since the international community only wants to hug terrorists and we're at war with Islamofascists. Nevermind the definition of fascism, it's those patsies who are fascists not Adolf Bush Inc..

9/11 is Adolf Bush's cornerstone crime against humanity and anyone alive who might remotely reveal CIA/GID/MOSSAD/ISI involvement must be "handled" accordingly. What witnesses there may have been among the Rendered Al CIAda that weren't killed resisting Torture in undisclosed locations through undisclosed means, we can now put to death Saddam Hussein style hiding behind National Security, with the DoD serving as Judge, Jury and Executioner, Off-Shore naturally.

Among the War Crimes Indictments we can expect against these monsters is this Dog&Pony military tribunal system which was set up solely to drown the peripheral witnesses/participants who were close to the operation. You can bet none of the Guantanamo prisoners were among the "in" crowd of schemers, but they probably were close to those who were, therefore they may have tidbits of information that might help along an international case against the Adolf Bush administration regarding Al CIAda and 9/11.

You don't spend hundreds of billions of dollars pursuing genuinely guilty criminals without a single conviction over 7 years, unless your motive was merely to spend hundreds of billions of dollars in the first place.You don't shield evidence of guilt from the light of justice unless your evidence points some other way. You don't stonewall objective legal inquiry and the Red Cross unless you have criminal activity to conceal.

Sorry folks, but those of you who can see the perpetual injustice of the Adolf Bush administration, and can't imagine them also pulling off 9/11 with the help of over-bloated intelligence budgets and multinational profiteers are just plain missing the real boat and how far a rich white man's conspiracy will go when there's Trillions in Profit at stake.

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9/11 - POLITICAL?
Posted by: VZEQICVA on May 30, 2008 3:03 PM   
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Reallly. That's all it ever was. Pretending otherwise is buying into Bush's years of lying to us. ANNA

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October Surprise comes early
Posted by: JSquercia on May 31, 2008 8:04 AM   
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Yes indeed the October Surprise Will come EARLY neatly delivered by the Bush Administartion .Sort of like that Osama video in the last Presidential Election .

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Rev. Wright is Right!
Posted by: johnbradleycopeland on Jun 2, 2008 3:04 PM   
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Goddamn America for sitting still and being lied to by Adolf Bush and his croonies! Many many citizen's are aware of the catastrophe Adolf Bush et al have done and yet have kept silent and wanted to "support the troops" all while the "troops" are still being killed, maimed and turned into vegetables by this illegal war! My senators Lindsey Graham, Jim Demint(ed) and Congressmas Joe "McWar" Wilson are all on the same "ark" with Adolf Bush and I hope that all citizen's of South Carolina will help me vote these co-conspirators out of office!

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Your friendly neighborhood patriot for Ron Paul 2008
Posted by: Michael_D on Jun 4, 2008 3:56 PM   
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‘HATE IRAN WEEK’ CONTINUES WITH RICE URGING EUROPEANS TO JUMP ON THE ‘HATE IRAN’ BANDWAGON

Yesterday it was Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice’s turn to patronise the Israel Lobby conference in Washington when she addressed AIPAC delegates calling for “Our partners in Europe and beyond… to exploit Iran's vulnerabilities more vigorously and impose greater costs on the regime, economically, financially, politically and diplomatically”..

The reality is that what they actually want to eliminate is a regime that stands in the way of what the current, overly racist leaders of Israel do in the world.. The Bush administration and the Israeli Zionists know full well that sanctions against Iran are not going to bring about regime change; indeed, such sanctions are more likely to stiffen Iranian resolve to resist US and Israeli demands rather than cause a backlash to the Iranian government’s posture in standing up to the US..

Time is running out for the US and Israel as the US presidential elections roll ever closer.. They are becoming desperate to gain public support for an attack on Iran and the ‘Hate Iran Week’ AIPAC conference is their last big chance of swinging the American people behind them to support an attack..

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Wake up to what has happened with the media people.

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Wake up to the method actors all in our media and on the internet.

Welcome to 2008 America where we don't pay attention to who does what much because many of us have the US flag blocking our view.

2 GROUPS people:
-The corporate thugs involved.

-and Their religious fanatic, compulsive-liar friends like this,

or like this,

or like this. (which is undoubtedly a mixture of them all)

Take your pick.. it's all of the above.. those hiding behind certain key perpetualted lies to decieve, make money, destroy, strip people of rights, and gain massive power.

DOWN WITH CORPORATE AMERICA LIES AND DECEPTION - UP WITH THE TRUTH AND THE US CONSTITUTION

AND DAMN THESE INTERNET PRO-OCCUPATION/"PRO-ISRAEL" LOBBY LYING SCUMBAG LYING TROLLS ALL IN OUR MEDIA

of course we now have the internet:

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911 Mysteries Part 1 - Demolitions (Full - 1ed.)
bodyofwar com
IVAW org
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911pressfortruth com
IfAmericansKnew org

TurnOffYourTv com

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross." -Sinclair Lewis

Fuck AIPAC and it's actor-candidates and their supporters and media spinners.

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Why is the Pentagon Rushing to Execute Their Prisoners ?
Posted by: hadashito on Jun 4, 2008 9:57 PM   
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I suspect that the Pentagon's actions are being hastened in order to quickly try and then execute these top level, "sexy" terrorists - - if that's what they really are, but we will never really know if the Pentagon has its way - - to get them out of the way and the cases buried (classified for national security reasons, of course) so that the Pentagon's own failures and involvement in illegal and crooked deals are covered up. Let's face it, it's the characteristic military way of proceeding, now more than ever before.
The Pentagon is going to have to undergo a broad and deep reform after January, 2009 if our civilian and military top brass are to be cleansed and the military returned to a fighting force rather than a military/politcal arm of the Republican neocon movement.

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How ill the feds prove BR Doubt that airplanes "caused" Twin Towers collapse?
Posted by: socrates2 on Jun 5, 2008 7:56 PM   
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As anyone who understands the law of homicide knows, the prosecutor has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the victim(s) died as a direct result of the accused's actions.
Assuming these defendants somehow were in cahoots with the hijackers to crash into both towers, the prosecutor _still_ has to prove BRD that the planes caused the fires and heat that caused the buildings to collapse.
That requires _expert_ testimony. That, I would love to hear. Once and for all this "insider demolition" theory can be put to rest or it won't.
Either the jet fuel fire and its heat _caused_ the Towers to collapse or it didn't. Either some _third party_ stealthily demolished the buildings or they didn't.
If the latter, these guys are being framed for the homicide of 3000 people.
For some reason, two films come to mind, "The Three Days of the Condor" and "The Long Kiss Goodnight."
In these post-Orwellian days of the "National Security State," it's hard to trust our overseers...

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