OpEdNews - Diary: NPR: Civilian trials for Gitmo prisoners are passe.

NPR spouted its anti-civilian trials pablum a day or so ago for its half-asleep listeners to imbibe.

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Was listening to NPR. Report by Ari Shapiro about U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. According to this report, Holder was losing influence because of his plans to have Guantanamo "detainees" tried in civilian courts as well as by military tribunals. According to the report, Sen. Lindsey Graham was not too keen on civilian trials, and was having talks with President Obama, leaving Holder out of the loop. This strikes me as rather odd. The Justice Department is supposed to be an independent department of government. Why would Obama have anything to say about what Holder decided to do in the way of prosecutions, or how to carry out trials? Anyway, Holder recently testified before Congress, and there was no sign in my opinion as to his being sidelined or as to his changing his opinion about civilian trials. Why NPR has decided to make it look like civilian trials are a thing of the past for Guantanamo detainees I do not know, but their report about it was not anything resembling a news story. Why are we as taxpayers supporting this institution, which seems to get funding from Rockefellerite think tanks, which, one guesses, get to promote their agendas using a good hunk of taxpayer money plus whatever NPR and so-called public radio gets from their listeners? But millions of middle class listeners cannot discriminate between real and spin. If it was heard on NPR, it must be true, as far as they are concerned. This is how a republic is brainwashed? This hit piece against Holder was just another example of why we cannot trust the mainstream media to get information. The purpose of a civilian trial is, of course, to force the goverment to make its case against these detainees in a public forum. It has already tortured these people, and many believe that the government does not have a iota of evidence against any of them.