I would argue that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11, should be pushing up daisies instead of getting three hots and a cot at U.S.-taxpayer expense for the rest of his days. I guess Joe Biden just didn’t know any tough, smart, experienced prosecutors who could convince a jury that KSM committed a couple of thousand acts of murder.
But even that deal looks acceptable compared with this one:
The two illegal Jordanian migrants who are charged with trying to breach Marine Corps Base Quantico in May posted thousands of dollars in bail and were allowed to leave federal custody, The Post can exclusively reveal.
Hasan Yousef Hamdan, 32, and Mohammad Khair Dabous, 28, were released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention despite their immigration status — Hamdan had crossed into the country illegally in April and Dabous had overstayed his student visa and is subject to removal proceedings, law enforcement sources told The Post.
They were arrested on May 3 for trespassing onto the military installation and handed over to ICE officers because of their immigration statuses.
The men both posted bond in their ICE cases — with Hamdan’s set at $15,000 and Dabous’ set at $10,000 — and were released in early June, according to federal law enforcement sources. . . .
The two accused have September court hearings scheduled.
As I asked on the Three Martini Lunch podcast today, was that a typo? Did somebody forget a zero or two?
Just what do you have to do to be kept in prison while awaiting trial? Because apparently, being an illegal immigrant from Jordan and trying to break into Quantico isn’t bad enough.
What, did prosecutors think these guys simply wanted to clean out a cash register and just happened to choose the base that is “home to the FBI Academy and FBI Laboratory, as well as a Defense Intelligence Agency facility and several major US Marine Corps commands — including the unit that flies the Marine One presidential helicopter”?