That's not to say that the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York will do anything inethical or improper. It's just that by looking at the Obama Administration's own words, the outcome has been politically determined and regardless of any adverse developments in the trials, Khalid Shiekh Mohammed and his co-conspirators will never go free.
Can any of you say, with seriousness, that were there to be an acquittal in U.S. Federal Court, that the Obama administration would set these men free? The idea of an acquittal is not far-fetched, or based on contempt for New Yorkers or the criminal justice system. It's based on the fact that confessions obtained without Miranda warnings, or by coercion, or evidence seized and searches conducted beyond the scope of the Fourth Amendment are inadmissible as evidence.
Now I'm sure that the Justice Department is confident that they have admissible evidence sufficient to go forward, but more than a few prosecutors have had evidence that they believed was constitutionally obtained get tossed. It's the basis of many if not most of government appeals in criminal cases.
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