Wednesday, November 18, 2009

To Their Great Surprise

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.