Why is Lindsay Graham SOOOO adamant that KSM not be tried inside the U.S.?

What is this guy's problem? Why is he so dead-set against Khalid Sheik Muhammed being tried in a civilian court inside the United States? So much so that he would introduce legislation to prevent it:

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/78857-gop-lawmakers-to-try-to-block-federal-funds-for-911-prosecutions



These people are fighting really, REALLY, hard to keep KSM out of the U.S. and out of a civilian court. I wonder why that is...?

Cui bono?

I'm guessing they'll seal most it, though.

Expect more in the months to come.

That means he's liable to 'get off' or be repatriated or something like that.......and the evidence of torture will be there for all to see.

That would be evidence of war crimes, via the Geneva Convention.

The man is a snake, and he's protecting the BFEE.

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/28/flashback-torture-photos/

Flashback: Torture photos depict ‘rape and murder,’ Sen. Graham said in 2004

By Stephen C. Webster

Published: May 28, 2009

In spite of the White House and Pentagon’s synchronized rebuttal to an explosive story by the Daily Telegraph alleging the White House is suppressing images of prisoners’ sexual abuse, almost nothing about the paper’s Thursday morning report was new, least of all the charges of rape.

“The American public needs to understand, we’re talking about rape and murder here,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), telling reporters in 2004 why the Abu Ghraib photos should not be released as former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld faced calls for his resignation. “We’re not just talking about giving people a humiliating experience. We’re talking about rape and murder and some very serious charges.”

The allegations leveled by Major General Antonio Taguba in Thursday’s Telegraph fall almost precisely in line with what was learned in 2004 following the first news and fallout from the Abu Ghraib torture scandal.

Latest: US journalist ‘confirms’ abuse photos included images of sodomy, oral sex

Even Rumsfeld called the recorded abuse “cruel,” “inhuman” and “blatantly sadistic.”

“Further photographs are said to depict sexual assaults on prisoners with objects including a truncheon, wire and a phosphorescent tube,” reported the Telegraph.

A military report, filed by General Taguba in 2004, described a prisoner being sodomized by a chemical light.

The GOP (and some cowardly conservative Dems) are trying to keep the issue in the hands of the military, and trying them as criminals wont provide the needed cover of military response they need to continue funneling uncounted billions into the MIC.

It would be almost as bad as if a black man were to be successful when the white man was not.. It would be devastating to the Republicans..

Any half ass lawyer could present enough evidence to acquit him of most of the major charges based on the illegal torture alone. In a fair trial all the government evidence would be promptly thrown out and there'd be nothing to try him for.

So much for American justice. :evilfrown:

BTW: Graham is a former military lawyer, and he knows the above is true, but he and most politicians are complicit in this little deviation of international law...

:patriot:

and the perps not be tried in civilian courts

Why aren't we keeping the prisoners in POW camps, where they are allowed the rights and privileges afforded to POWS under the Geneva Conventions?

If they are POWs, we can't torture for information. We can't withhold communication from the outside. We can't try them for war crimes. Doing those things are war crimes themselves.

Our laws provide for one or the other - either they are prisoners of war, and afforded the rights of such, or they are criminals and are to be treated under the law as such. There is no third way.

a craven coward

Bush/Cheney and other RepubliCONS..

and he's aiming for freeper cred.