Grassley on KSM trial: ‘if the beard doesn’t fit, you must acquit!’
Accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Muhammad pre, and post-beard.
Chuck Grassley sets a new marker for stupid:
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) offered a stern warning for Eric Holder on Wednesday when addressing the attorney general’s confidence that he would get a conviction in civilian court for 9/11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: Remember O.J. Simpson.
The Iowa Republican, speaking at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in which Holder was testifying, raised the specter of a sympathetic jury letting KSM off on some sort of judicial technicality. To drive the point home, he recalled what happened roughly 15 years ago with the “Juice”.
“I don’t know how you can make a statement that failure to convict is not an option, when you have got juries in this country,” said Grassley. “I think a lot of Americans thought O.J. Simpson ought to have been convicted for murder rather than be in jail for what he is jail for now… I’m a farmer not a lawyer but I just want to make that observation.”
Permission to roll over now, Johnny Cochran.
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