White House Orders Justice Dept. To Move KSM Trial Out Of NYC?
UPDATED
According to the New York Daily News:
The White House ordered the Justice Department to consider other places to try the 9/11 terror suspects after a wave of opposition to holding the trial in lower Manhattan.
The White House took the action hours after Mayor Bloomberg called Attorney General Eric Holder to say he would "prefer that they did it elsewhere."
"It would be an inconvenience at the least, and probably that's too mild a word for people that live in the neighborhood and businesses in the neighborhood," Bloomberg told reporters.
"There are places that would be less expensive for the taxpayers and less disruptive for New York City."
State leaders have railed against a plan to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in Manhattan federal court since Holder proposed it last month.
The order to consider new venues does not change the White House's position that Mohammed should be tried in civilian court.
"President Obama is still committed to trying Mohammed and four other terrorist detainees in federal court," spokesman Bill Burton said Thursday
Get the hell out of here: No terror trial in city, but send funds for WTC sick NY Daily News
Alternate New York sites for 9/11 terror trial pose legal, logistical troubles New York Daily News
Obama signals 9/11 terror trial may be moved from N.Y.C. NJ Star Ledger
With recent reports figuring the costs per year running in the hundred$ of million$ of taxpayer dollar$ to hold each of these trials. . .expect the chorus of NIMBY begin!
He may play it as job growth . . .but more likely this is Obama's red pill.
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