Lindsey Graham To Eric Holder : What Happens If Khalid Sheik Mohammed Wasn’t Mirandized ?

It’s kind of sad that Eric Holder has to be told during a Congressional hearing, after already choosing to put one of the most notorious terrorists in history in trial in our civilian court system, that there’s no precedent for trying enemy combatants in civilian courts.

Holder dodges the questions, but Graham’s point is a good one. Undoubtedly, high-profile terrorists like Khalid Sheik Mohammed aren’t ever going to be let out of detention (though that begs the question of the trial). But what about second or third tierterrorists who aren’t going to have the same level of public/media scrutiny ?

Do we set precedents in the Khalid Sheik Mohammed trial that could be exploited by lesser, though still dangerous in their own right, terrorists  ? Are we going to see jihadis going free because our troops didn’t Mirandize them when they were scooped up in Iraq or Afghanistan or somewhere like that ?

That’s what the Obama administration has set us up for. Which is no doubt why Obama has been distancing himself from Holder on these trials. If this backfires, Holder is going under the bus.