Olbermann: Bushed! - 9/11 Mastermind Trials Timed for 2008 Elections?

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MSNBC Countdown w/ KEITH OLBERMANN - February 11,2008.

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1. Rachel Maddow brought this up today

She was perplexed, as I was, about this recent spate of peculiar admissions by bushco about their torturing their captives and this this kangaroo show trial of people they tortured "confessions" out of, etc.

It all seems to be about the '08 elections -- to make the war/terrorism/fear thing the lead issue in the general election.

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2. Same old same old

Remember... These are the "Mayberry Machiavellians". EVERYTHING is about politics. Justice, war, religion, hair, food.....

The Bush administration has been the most consistent ever. It "doth attain; like something to prophetic strain." Their motives are always the same. Their actions can always be seen in the same context... across the board. There is no reason to even consider other motives for anything but political expediency.

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3. this story on CBC radio this morning

September 11 Criminal Charges - 9/11 Family Member

Nearly six and a half years after the devastating attacks of September 11, 2001, United States military prosecutors charged six men with planning and executing the attacks. They listed 169 charges in all, ranging from conspiracy and murder in violation of the law of war to destroying property and supporting terrorism. The accused were all detainees at the U.S. Military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and included Mohammed al-Qahtani -- the man U.S. authorities say was supposed to have been the 20th hijacker -- and Ramzi Binalshibh, the man alleged to have been the intermediary between the hijackers and the leaders of Al Qaeda.

But most of the attention was on the alleged mastermind of the attacks: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Brigadier General Thomas Hartmann, a legal advisor to the Defence Department's Office of Military Commissions, announced the charges.

U.S. military prosecutors also revealed they were seeking the death penalty for all six men, to be tried under the much criticized military tribunal system set up shortly after September 11th. And though prosecutors say the trial or trials were to be "as open as possible," not everyone was convinced that justice is being done, including some people who lost friends and family in the September 11th attacks.

Maureen Basnicki's husband Ken was killed in the attack on The World Trade Center and she joined us from Ottawa.


September 11 - Criminal Charges

Colonel Morris Davis was one of the people in charge of building the cases against those six men as the Chief Prosecutor for the U.S. Department of Defence's Office of Military Commissions until he resigned in October 2007. He spoke to us from Washington.

http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2008/200802/20080212.html
Click the RealAudio link to listen.