Facing strong pressure from the public and both political parties, the Obama administration is considering moving the KSM trial from Manhattan to somewhere else.
This is a good thing, but it still doesn’t appear that KSM will be tried in a military tribunal. The real problem, of course, is the law enforcement approach to terrorism that results in federal court trials for unlawful enemy combatants.
UPDATE: It is now being reported that the KSM trial could be held in a military tribunal. Sarah Palin is correct that the location is not the real problem, as I stated above.
UPDATE 2: Andy McCarthy issues his statement on the news:
Reality has yet again dragged the Obama administration, kicking and screaming, toward a more sensible policy. Like the decision to close Gitmo, which was announced without regard for the imperative of detaining committed jihadists, the decision to hold civilian trials for alien enemy combatants was made without regard for security, costs, the prospect of surrendering national defense information to the enemy during wartime, or the betrayal of humanitarian law caused by rewarding the worst war criminals with gold-plated due process. Not holding the civilian trial in New York City is a good thing. Not holding a civilian trial at all would be a far better thing. Since we have not made provisions for a national-secuirty court to deal with the novel challenge of international terrorism, wartime alien enemy combatants should be tried by military commission in the safety of Guantanamo Bay — which is what it was built for, at great expense to the American taxpayer.
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