CNN:
Washington (CNN) — The White House is considering moving the site of the September 11 attack trial from Manhattan if the Justice Department sees fit, senior administration officials said Friday.
“Conversations have occurred within the administration to discuss contingency options should the possibility of a trial in Lower Manhattan be foreclosed upon by Congress or locally,” a senior administration official said.
The turnabout comes after New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other politicians expressed great concern over the costs and disruption of holding the September 11 trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four accomplices at a Lower Manhattan courthouse.
White House officials said President Obama agrees with Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision in November to try Mohammed in a civilian criminal court in the United States, not a military tribunal.
“Currently our federal jails hold hundreds of convicted terrorists, and the president’s opinion has not changed on that,” White House spokesman Bill Burton said Thursday.
If they won’t go military commission, like they should: Find the most “progressive” locale. San Francisco? That might prove to be a military commission’s last chance.





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