USS Cole Mom Sorry She Voted For Obama

February 8, 2009 | Jim Vicevich | |

Just getting around to posting this but it is worth listening too. Neil Cavuto interviewing Diane McDaniel’s, who lost her son when AQ bombed the USS Cole in 2000. She turned down an invitation given to 9/11 and Cole families, to meet with President Obama last week after this happened.

The meeting took place a day after a senior Pentagon judge dropped charges against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, an al-Qaida suspect held at Guantanamo and accused of masterminding the USS Cole bombing. New charges against al-Nashiri could be brought later, and he will remain in custody for the time being.

A legal move late Thursday by Susan J. Crawford, the top legal authority for military trials at Guantanamo, marked the last active war crimes case there.

The Obama administration is reviewing the system to make sure the 245 suspects remaining there are given international and U.S. legal rights. That review largely will determine whether the terror suspects should be tried in U.S. courts or released to other countries.

Understandably, she’s not happy …

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuq5hlXFuZw

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Jim Vicevich

Jim is a veteran broadcaster and conservative/libertarian blogger with more than 25 years experience in TV and radio. Jim's was the long-term host of The Jim Vicevich Show on WTIC 1080 in Hartford from 2004 through 2019. Prior to radio, Jim worked as a business and financial reporter for NBC30 - the NBC owned TV station in Hartford - and as business editor at WFSB-TV in Hartford for 14 years while earning six Emmy nominations and three Telly Awards.

2 Comments

  1. Erik Blazynski on February 9, 2009 at 8:49 am

    This is not really a big deal, they stopped all trial because they want to come up with a better way to process these prisoners. The man will be re-charged and tried at a later date. Big deal.



  2. Dimsdale on February 9, 2009 at 2:13 pm

    I just hope that sending them home is not Obama’s “better way” to process these monsters.



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