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Well that didn’t take long.  Less than two weeks after the Obama Administration announced it would give alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed the benefit and public spectacle of a civilian trial in New York City, it's clear that President Obama and his Attorney General, Eric Holder, forgot to consider the law of unintended consequences.  Obama and Holder, in the haste of trying to score political points with the Left,  appear to have neglected restrictions on the use of German evidence in the trial, leading Germany to send a legal team to prevent the use of this evidence in court.  Deutsche Welle reports:

A legal team is going to New York to prevent the use of evidence provided by Germany in seeking a death penalty…. Germany, which does not have a death penalty, provided evidence for the trial on the condition that it could not be used to support a death sentence.

This may have missed Attorney General Holder’s attention, as last week he commented “I do not see any legal impediments to our seeking the death penalty.  We will obviously have to convince a jury of 12 people that the death penalty is appropriate.”  Maybe he should have checked with Germany first.

By placing politics over policy, the Obama Administration has decided to move these cases to civilian courts, apparently ignoring the question of “how much evidence is admissible in a civilian courtroom.”  The American people see through this political promise, and staunchly disagree with this dangerous policy, mostly because it puts the fates of those who committed acts of war in the hands of unelected judges, foreign governments, and, perhaps worst of all, the law of unintended consequences.