To Their Great Surprise

clipped from justoneminute.typepad.com FAUX DEATH PENALTY HAWKS:  Obama and Holder claim to want the death penalty for KSM but they sure picked an odd venue to get it.  Jim Geraghty points us to the Daily News: WASHINGTON - Prosecutors who will try the 9/11 plotters in New York face a "Mission Impossible" task of winning death sentences for Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and his henchmen. Frances Townsend, an ex-New York federal prosecutor who was former President George W. Bush's top counterterror adviser, said death verdicts this time aren't out of the question, but the odds are against it. She also maintained life without parole at "Supermax" could better service justice. We don't martyr them, which may be a reasonable goal, but Obama ought to have the courage to say so (as if.)  Instead we will have a full airing of the Bush torture era and no death penalty for KSM, all to Obama and Holder's great surprise.