{"id":710207,"date":"2010-04-06T17:13:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T21:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=15854"},"modified":"2010-04-06T17:13:15","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T21:13:15","slug":"the-left-hits-obama-on-civilian-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/710207","title":{"rendered":"The Left Hits Obama on Civilian Trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group called September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows has send a video to the President- called an &#8220;Urgent Letter to President Obama&#8221; &#8211; pressing him to hold the trials for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other 9\/11 co-conspirators in civilian courts, instead of military commissions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These families say if the President decides to keep the detainees in military comissions, he would be &#8220;buckling to political pressure.&#8221; The video features the mother of one of the women\u00a0 killed in the World Trade Center towers.\u00a0 The Peaceful Tomorrows group says it is an advocacy organization that seeks &#8220;effective, nonviolent responses to terrorism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The initial plan to try the detainees in federal court in Manhattan\u00a0hit a wall with New York City officials and some Democratic lawmakers in Congress because of cost and security concerns.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today the White House says it is looking at &#8220;all available alternatives,&#8221; and that a decision is &#8220;a few weeks away.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group called September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows has send a video to the President- called an &#8220;Urgent Letter to President Obama&#8221; &#8211; pressing him to hold the trials for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other 9\/11 co-conspirators in civilian courts, instead of military commissions.\u00a0 These families say if the President decides to keep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3756,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2YKX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3756"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}