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The case against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged co-conspirators "will arguably be the biggest trials since the Nazi was crime trials at Nuremberg after World War II," contended ABC anchor Charles Gibson. Certainly his newscast and those at CBS and NBC have given short shrift to ghastlier atrocities. In the past three years, only NBC's Martin Fletcher and ABC's Martha Raddatz have reported on the genocide in Rwanda; only NBC's Stephanie Gosk and ABC's Hilary Brown have reported on the prosecution of Radovan Karadzic for war crimes in the former Yugoslavia. Karadzic is accused of ordering the death of 8,000 in Srebrenica.
None of the newscasts bothered to go through the customary motions of a presumption of innocence. ABC's Gibson called Mohammed "the self-proclaimed architect of the 9/11 attacks." CBS anchor Katie Couric asked reporter Bob Orr: "If all the 9/11 suspects have already admitted their guilt, why a trial?" On NBC, Pete Williams reminded us that Mohammed "bragged in a hearing two years ago that he was responsible for the 9/11 operation from A to Z." Terry Moran from ABC's Nightline dispensed with the "alleged" in previewing the trial of "the mastermind of 9/11." Listen to anchor Gibson's implicit expectation of a show trial rather than due process: "You cannot let these guys go. So how do they get, how can they have a fair trial?"
Credit goes to CBS' Orr for at least outlining the case against the five suspects. He called Mohammed "the headline defendant." Walid bin-Attash is accused of running camps; Ramzi bin al-Shibh is accused of conducting the training; Ali abdul-Aziz Ali is accused of organizing the finances; Mustafa al-Hawsawi is accused of providing the cash. Neither ABC's Pierre Thomas nor NBC's Williams even bothered.
There are two problems in jumping to the conclusion that a guilty verdict is automatic. All three newscasts mentioned the first--that Mohammed confessed to the conspiracy after he had been tortured. Only CBS' Orr alluded to the second--that his confession may amount to vainglorious braggadocio and that the prosecution may not have proof that such taunting boasts are based in fact. Orr recalled attending a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay. Mohammed "stood up many times and pleaded guilty to a number of terror atrocities, said he wanted to die, he wanted to be martyred, said his co-conspirators would also plead guilty--but the government still needs to prove the case." CBS' in-house legal analyst Andrew Cohen told Orr that he inferred from Holder's decision that federal prosecutors have "extra evidence that does not rely upon his statements."
As for the torture, ABC uncharacteristically allowed the T-word to be used on its airwaves. Anchor Gibson is normally scrupulous about using the euphemism of "harsh" interrogation. Thomas cited "questions about whether evidence may have been gathered through torture" and Moran mentioned the challenge of "so-called" torture: "Human rights lawyers are going to say you cannot unwaterboard Khalid Sheikh Mohammed…that this case is what they call the fruit of the poisoned tree." NBC's Williams and CBS' Orr were mealy-mouthed. Williams predicted that "the CIA's harsh interrogation methods mean some evidence is likely inadmissible." Orr put it this way: "The suspects were subjected to harsh interrogation techniques, for years held in secret prisons with no access to attorneys."
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