Opponents of the decision have said a civilian trial will give Mohammed a platform to spew jihadist rhetoric. <\/font><\/p>\n "I’m not scared of what Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has to say at trial<\/strong>," Holder said. "And no one else needs to be afraid either<\/font><\/strong>." <\/font><\/p>\n "I have every confidence that the nation and the world will see him for the coward that he is," Holder said. <\/font><\/p>\n "We need not cower in the face of this enemy. Our institutions are strong, our infrastructure is sturdy, our resolve is firm and our people are ready," Holder said. "It is past time to finally act by bringing prosecutions."\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Inserted from <TPM<\/a>><\/p>\n Faux Noise<\/em> proved, once again, that they are the GOP Reichsministry of propaganda by passing the following comment through moderation at their Faux Nation website.<\/p>\n That\u2019s the only response the rabid right knows. If it disagrees, kill it. The way the right is trolling for assassins, comments like this one do not surprise me, but I do feel intense anger over them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eric Holder answered his critics yesterday by indirectly pointing out the moral cowardice of the GOP critics of his decision to showcase our justice system. In his opening remarks to the Senate Judiciary Committee this morning, Attorney General Eric Holder responded to criticisms about his decision to bring five terror suspects, including 9\/11 mastermind Khalid […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"holder-cspan\"](\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202009\/UnliketheGOPHolderIsNotaCoward_22D5\/holdercspan.jpg\" "\\"holder-cspan\\"")
<\/a> In his opening remarks to the Senate Judiciary Committee this morning, Attorney General Eric Holder responded to criticisms about his decision to bring five terror suspects, including 9\/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. <\/font><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/p>\n