Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert A. Spencer who is one of the Moussaoui prosecutors commented (reported in the Washington Post)to the judge "But we don't know whether it is worth us proceeding at all, candidly, under the ruling you made today, and that's why we need to assess it, because without some relief, frankly, I think that there's no point for us to go forward."
Relatives of those killed on 9/11 will be upset by this turn of events, but it is the fault of the Bush Prosecutors, no one else. Someone should lose their law liscence over this. Nor is this such a truly bad outcome. The termination of this trial does nothing except bar the death penalty for Moussaoui and commit him to life without parole.
Still, it seems inherently wrong that the only members of al Qaeda who have gotten the death penalty seems to be the 19 hijackers who volunteered for it and killed 3,000 innocent civilians when they did it.
Is this just another example of the incompetence for which the Bush administration has become so famous?
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