This is why we don’t and never will trust these ignorant, incompetent libs with keeping America safe. By insisting on trying these muzz pieces of crap in civilian courts, rather than in military tribunals, as the Bush administration was going to do, they’re proving that they’re obviously more interested in having 70 year-old Nuns or little kids groped by overpaid TSA loafers, and calling it terrorism deterrence, than they are in actually convicting and deterring terrorists.

The way things are now under the Obama regime, “TSA” should stand for “Transacting Sexual Assaults” and the gropers’ motto should be “If we don’t get off, you don’t get on”.

Were you aware that these scanners would not actually detect or “see” any type of explosives like the Christmas day “underwear bomber” attempted to detonate?

Look at these sample images from TSA tests. As you can see they, they used people stashing guns and knives, which is a joke, since these items are easily seen or detected with current technology which does not invade one’s privacy, but not any type of chemical, like the “underwear bomber” had sewn into his underwear, or other types of incendiary devices, such as plastic explosives, because those wouldn’t be seen unless the would-be terrorist was carrying a large amount.

And did you hear about this $30 million gift from the Obama administration to union bosses via TSA unionization? Probably not.

TSA was set-up to be non-union “in light of their critical national security responsibilities, and shall not, as a term or condition of their employment, be entitled to engage in collective bargaining or be represented for the purpose of engaging in such bargaining by any representative or organization.”

A few facts about the TSA you might find interesting:

* Number of TSA employees eligible for unionization: 50,000
* TSA budget for FY 2010: $7.8 billion
* Estimated Union dues TSA union will provide union bosses at $50 per month: $2,500,000 per month or $30,000,000 per year.
* Number of Americans whose Fourth Amendment rights have allegedly been violated: Thousands and still counting.
* NUMBER OF TERRORISTS CAUGHT BY THE TSA: 0

But liberals, being liberals, are more interested in paying off the union goons (that spend hundreds of millions of dollars on trying to elect them) than they are in the security of the American people.

Ahmed Ghailani, who was detained at GITMO, was charged with 285 counts, including 224 murder charges (including the murders of 24 Americans), for the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. He would have faced the death penalty if he would have been convicted of the murder charges. Now, the 36 year old POS will get as little as 20 years in prison.

Gitmo detainee convicted of 1 charge
First to face civilian trial

The Obama administration’s plan to prosecute suspected terrorists in civilian courts was dealt a serious blow Wednesday when a jury acquitted a former Guantanamo detainee of all but one of the hundreds of charges he faced.

Ahmed Ghailani, 36, still faces at least 20 years in prison and could receive a life sentence after he was convicted of one count of conspiracy to destroy U.S. property in connection with the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

But Ghailani was acquitted of 224 counts of murder for each of the people killed in the bombings as well as other 60 other charges. He could have faced the death penalty if convicted of murder.

The trial at a Lower Manhattan courthouse had been viewed as a test for the Obama administration’s aim of putting other terrorist suspects, including self-professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four others held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on trial on U.S. soil.

The verdict also gave fuel to persistent administration critics who argue that suspected terrorists should be prosecuted by military tribunals at Guantanamo not in U.S. civilian courts.

Rep. Peter T. King, a New York Republican who is the ranking member of the Committee on Homeland Security, called on the administration to abandon plans to prosecute terrorists in civilian courts, saying the “tragic verdict demonstrates the absolute insanity of the Obama administration’s decision to try al Qaeda terrorists in civilian courts.”

“I am disgusted at the total miscarriage of justice today in Manhattan’s federal civilian court,” Mr. King said in a statement. “In a case where Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani was facing 285 criminal counts, including hundreds of murder charges, and where Attorney General Eric Holder assured us that ‘failure is not an option,’ the jury found him guilty on only one count and acquitted him of all other counts including every murder charge.”

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Update: GOP vows to block more transfers from and closing of GITMO; Trial result means GITMO will most likely not close by the time Obama’s first and only term expires

WASHINGTON – The first court conviction of a Guantanamo Bay detainee did little to push President Barack Obama closer to shuttering the island prison, making it increasingly likely his campaign promise will remain unmet by the time his current term expires.

Jurors in New York City on Wednesday convicted Ahmed Ghailani of conspiracy to blow up government buildings in the al-Qaida attacks on two U.S. embassies in 1998, but they acquitted him on more than 280 other charges. He is the only person transferred from Guantanamo Bay for trial since the U.S. began filling the military prison in Cuba eight years ago.
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Chavez: Obama’s Travesty of Justice

Not since the infamous acquittal of O.J. Simpson has the American jury system so utterly failed as it did this week in acquitting on all but one charge former Guantanamo detainee Ahmed Ghailani, an al-Qaida terrorist responsible for the deaths of 224 people. A New York City jury managed to convict Ghailani on only one charge — conspiracy to destroy U.S. government property — in the attack on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.

But the failure is not just that of one criminal jury but of the Obama administration, which decided to try enemy combatants in American criminal courts. Instead of admitting their serious error in judgment, administration officials said they were “pleased” with the outcome because Ghailani would serve a minimum of 20 years in prison for his crimes. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, a Clinton-appointed federal judge who presided over the case, was even more reprehensible in his remarks after the trial. Kaplan complimented the jury on its verdict, suggesting that “American justice can be rendered calmly, deliberately and fairly by ordinary people, people who are not beholden to any government, not even ours.”

The jury heard hard evidence that Ghailani purchased the truck used in the bombing in Tanzania; obtained some of the oxygen and acetylene gas tanks used in the bombing; stored the electronic detonators used in the attack, one of which the FBI recovered in Ghailani’s house along with TNT traces; and gave the actual suicide bomber the cell phone used in plotting the attack. The jury did not hear evidence from a witness who sold Ghailani the TNT used in the attack because the judge barred it, claiming that Ghailani led federal prosecutors to the witness only after Ghailani was subject to coercive interrogation methods at Guantanamo. But even without this direct testimony, there was more than enough evidence to convict on the more serious charges.

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