Rep. King: Continuing debate over 9/11 trials ‘makes us look foolish’

April 19, 2010 03:40


King, repeatedly described Holder as a “liberal ideologue” with a “liberal inclination he can’t control.” Or was he talking about Obama?

By Tony Romm at The Hill


Rep. Pete King (R-N.Y.) on Sunday said the current debate over where federal prosecutors should try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other 9/11 suspects “makes us look foolish.”

While President Barack Obama is reportedly mulling places other than New York to host those trials, Attorney General Eric Holder said just this week that a federal court in New York’s Lower Manhattan area is still “not off the table.”

But that comment has since enraged King, long an opponent of the White House’s approach to Guantanamo Bay trials, who told Fox News on Sunday that it is “time for the president to say he’s president, that the president decides this and not the attorney general.”

“It makes us look foolish to have the Justice Department saying one thing and the president another, to have all of this disarray in the White House,” said King, who repeatedly described Holder as a “liberal ideologue” with a “liberal inclination he can’t control.”

“It is time for the president to do the right thing, take it out of New York and put it in a military tribunal,” King added.

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