By DICK MORRIS &EILEEN MCGANN,New York Post
Obama is playing politics with the Fort Hood shooting and KSM
As he flew to Asia on Saturday,President Obama told the media in Alaska that he opposes a congressional investigation into the Fort Hood massacre,saying that we must “resist the temptation to turn this tragic event into political theater.”Yet,even as he was posturing against political theatrics,he had just decided that the prosecution of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would proceed on the greatest of public stages —New York City.
With the strict evidentiary rules in force in federal civilian courts,it is easy to see how the prosecution of Mohammed could morph into an indictment of the Bush administration’s interrogation techniques and waterboarding. As in rape trials,the magnitude of the underlying crime (masterminding the 9/11 attacks) might well be lost as the defense puts the victim (in this case,the government) on trial.
It is not political theater itself to which Obama objects —but theater that highlights issues that liberals would rather forget. He is quite content to let the Mohammed trial become the theater of the left. Perhaps even eager.
Obama and his handlers know that the key to building favorable ratings is to control the agenda. And the more the national discussion centers on national security and terrorism,the more Republicans gain. So the Fort Hood terror attack comes at an awful time for an administration trying to turn the nation’s attention away from the terrorist threat.
Typical obama. It is what it is and it was another terror attack on U S soil.
he makes me puke everyday