Imagine if Ernesto Miranda had been waterboarded

Un-freaking-believable. The Obama administration, once again "acting stupidly" - to steal one of his famous utterances - has decided to take a Muslim terrorist who committed an act of war by masterminding the attacks of September 11, 2001, and put him on trial in New York City, complete with all the constitutional protections and due process requirements that a trial in a civilian court of law requires.

In his latest column, Pat Buchanan has a few questions that Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder need to answer. Here is one of them:

And if we must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that KSM was complicit in mass murder, by what right do we send Predators and Special Forces to kill his al-Qaida comrades wherever we find them? For none of them has been granted a fair trial. When the Justice Department sets up a task force to wage war on a crime organization like the Mafia or MS-13, no U.S. official has a right to shoot Mafia or gang members on sight. No one has a right to bomb their homes. No one has a right to regard the possible death of their wives and children in an attack as acceptable collateral damage.

As Buchanan points out, either we are at war, or we are not. Subjecting Khalid Sheik Muhammad to a civilian criminal trial is going to pretty interesting when his defense lawyers (I hate them already) are going to ask the prosecution about the interrogation techniques used on him. Wouldn't the waterboarding alone cause the judge to dismiss the whole case? Then what happens?

By all means Dear Leader and AG Holder, tell us.

Good Day to You, Sir