This has obviously (and purposely, no doubt) gone under the radar, and not been reported on by the losers in the Obama propaganda machine, I mean lib media, for obvious reasons, but it is important.
The GOP submitted a bill that would have required, by law, that all foreign-born terrorists be tried by military tribunals or commissions, and NOT in our civilian courts. The libs in the Senate, led by that idiotic dunce Harry Reid, rejected it 52-47.
Of course, this is yet more proof that the imbecile occupying our White House, and his partners in crimes against America, the libturds in congress, do not take terrorism as a serious threat.
Or they want to be seen by the rest of the Islam-loving morons in this world, who don’t believe terrorism is a real threat, or believe that they’re just “misunderstood”, as having “compassion” for these murdering 7th century savages, instead of executing the murdering scumbags like we should.
Senate rejects GOP effort on terrorist trials
The Senate voted early Friday to reject a Republican effort to prohibit the United States from prosecuting foreign terrorist suspects in civilian courts, handing a victory to President Barack Obama.
By 52-47, senators turned aside a proposal by Sen. Kelly Ayotte (AY-aht), R-N.H., that would have forced such trials to occur before military tribunals or commissions. The Obama administration has fought to continue bringing such cases in federal courts, with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Attorney General Eric Holder writing Senate leaders on Thursday that the measure would deprive them of a potent weapon against terrorism and increase the risk of terrorists escaping justice.
Obama has had numerous clashes with Congress over the handling of war on terror detainees. Congress has voted to prevent the transfer of detainees from the naval prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the U.S. Obama has sought to close that detention facility but has been opposed by Republicans and some Democratic lawmakers.
Ayotte said it would be dangerous to let terrorists exercise the protections against self-incrimination and other rights of civilian courts that they might use to avoid surrendering critical information to investigators. Republicans cited last November’s acquittal by a federal jury in New York of all but one of hundreds of charges brought against Ahmed Ghailani for his role in destroying two U.S. embassies in Africa, in which 224 people were killed.
“Enemy combatants are not common criminals who just robbed the liquor store,” she said, adding, “The priority has to be on gathering information to protect Americans.” Click here to read the rest.
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