McConnell: Congress will reject funds for KSM trial

I'm hoping that Congress will also reject funds for Gitmo North in Illinois. Meanwhile, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) tells us that Congress, which is of course controlled by the Democrats, will block funding for a 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed trial in New York. Hopefully that will be the end of this bizarre episode.

From Politico:

"We need to deny these people a show trial," McConnell said on CNN's "State of the Union." "We need to proceed to interrogate them."

He said support for trying Mohammed in the federal courts is "collapsing," and he predicted both Republicans and Democrats would withhold funds from the administration.

"Yeah, absolutely, and I think that will be done on a bipartisan basis," McConnell said. "Soon the administration will figure out whatever domestic support they had for this is totally collapsing."

"I mean, Larry King would have a more thorough interrogation of one of his [guests] than the Christmas bomber had by the Justice Department," McConnell said, refering to the AP report that "underwear bomber" Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was interrogated for just 50 minutes before being read his Miranda rights.

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