In an address to the Heritage Foundation filled with unsubstantiated assertions about the Obama administration’s counterterrorism policies, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the GOP Senate leader, made one concrete promise: If the Obama administration moves forward with its plans to try the 9\/11 conspirators in civilian courts, “We will do everything they can do deny them the funds to do it. That is my pledge.”<\/p>\n
That was about the only substantive remark McConnell made.<\/span> The speech was filled with assertions that the intelligence community lost access to information from would-be Christmas bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on the very day when the intelligence community is saying the exact opposite and Abdulmutallab is cooperating<\/a>. (He attempted to square that circle with a baseless assertion that Mirandizing Abdulmutallab cost the Yemeni security forces valuable information for the past several weeks.) McConnell blasted Abdulmutallab’s FBI interrogators for ostensibly not having any “foreign language skills” — which is an evidence-free assertion as well — even though Abdulmutallab speaks English<\/em>. McConnell called the civilian trial of Zacharias Moussaoui a “disaster,” even though it ended in Moussaoui being sentenced to life in prison<\/a>. He used Attorney General Eric Holder as a bogeyman, saying it was inappropriate for Holder to make decisions about trying al-Qaeda operatives in federal court given the military implications of that decision, even though Defense Secretary Robert Gates — a Bush appointee — endorsed Holder as the “most qualified” official to make that determination yesterday<\/a>. He said the Bush administration made a “mistake” by trying terrorists in civilian courts, even though he didn’t raise a word of objection at the time.<\/p>\n Oh, and he even managed to screw up a joke about the Obama administration’s mantra being “ready, fire, aim” by saying it was “ready, aim, fire.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In an address to the Heritage Foundation filled with unsubstantiated assertions about the Obama administration’s counterterrorism policies, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the GOP Senate leader, made one concrete promise: If the Obama administration moves forward with its plans to try the 9\/11 conspirators in civilian courts, “We will do everything they can do deny them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}