Hey, remember how those nutty conservatives were concerned that the 9/11 suspects will use a civilian trial as a stage to spread their nuttiness and inflict emotional harm on Americans? Yeah, turns out those nutty conservatives were right.

Defense lawyers have confirmed that their suspects will utilize the limelight to attack the United States’ foreign policy, even as the Obama Administration assures us that everything will be just fine and dandy.

The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday.

Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer for accused terrorist Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, said the men would not deny their role in the 2001 attacks but “would explain what happened and why they did it.”

The U.S. Justice Department announced earlier this month that Ali and four other men accused of murdering nearly 3,000 people in the deadliest terrorist attack in the U.S. will face a civilian federal trial just blocks from the site of the destroyed World Trade Center.

Ali, also known as Ammar al-Baluchi, is a nephew of professed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Mohammed, Ali and the others will explain “their assessment of American foreign policy,” Fenstermaker said. “Their assessment is negative,” he said.

In other words, the Obama Administration effectively handed Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his terrorist cronies a microphone to blast their views about America to the world.

Rather than provide them a military trial where they’d receive a fair shake but not be able to preach jihad to six billion people, we gave them them the platform that is a civilian trial so they could take on the role of the Billy Grahams of terrorism.

And to think conservatives are skeptical about the Obama Administration’s decision on this matter. Silly people.

Via Hot Air.