So, here we are. Over eight years later after the worst mainland attack in the United States, we find ourselves in a wondrous position. We have the masterminds of the attacks in a military prison. The country and more importantly, the families of the dead have moved on with their lives while still holding to the memory of those taken of them. Everything is relatively kosher for a people who have witnessed one of the world's worst tragedies. That was until today.

Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that they will be putting the masterminds behind 9/11 on trial in New York City. In the interest of justice, the Obama Administration has decided to take the mad men back to the city the crimes were committed and try them in civilian court.

Now, I ask a question that all of us are probably asking: Why? Why now? Why a civilian trial and not a military tribunal? Why waste the resources at all? They confessed to the crimes (if you can call them that) and requested to be executed. As a prosecutor with a full confession and a perpetrator with the willingness to receive the maximum sentence, this shouldn't even go to trial.

Not to mention the trouble the prosecution will have just taking this to trial. There is no telling how hard it is going to be to find an impartial jury in a city where everyone knows someone who died in those attacks? Let's not forget about the Defense's right to discovery. They are going to have access to undercover agents lists, intelligence reports, classified documents, the list goes on. Any prosecutor in their right mind, especially one that does not wish classified information to fall in the hands of overzealous lawyers, would NOT want this to go to trial.

I question the motives of this decision. Especially the timing of the trial. Four years? It seems odd to me that this president with his extremely ambitious list of things he wants to get done wants nothing of what he wants to get done to take effect until his second term in office. Health care, if passed, won't go into effect until 2013. This grand trial of the mastermind behind 9/11 won't be until 2014?

What are they hiding I wonder?

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