Rep. Bachmann Suggests President Obama Advised KSM To Plead Not Guilty

Speaking on the House floor last night, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) railed against the justice department's decision to prosecute Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in federal court.  Recalling KSM's previous attempt to plead guilty in a military commission, Bachmann shockingly suggested that President Obama or Attorney General Eric Holder had advised the alleged 9/11 mastermind to change his plea:

BACHMANN: This is an extremely important point.  Again, the mastermind of 9-1-1, who achieved his goal of killing 3,000 innocent Americans in the World Trade Center bombing, he got his way. Why would we give him his way by bringing him to New York City, at over $200 million a year taxpayer expense, to give him a show trial when he has already pled guilty and already asked to be executed?  What happened? Did the President, did the Attorney General say to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, "Now wait a minute, you don't want to plead guilty.  Wait a minute you don't want to be executed.  You want to come to New York City and have the trial just like you asked for in the first place."

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As Spencer Ackerman noted in 2008, there were a number of questions surrounding KSM's attempted guilty plea at Guantanamo Bay.  In November, two former Bush justice officials wrote that Republicans are "putting undue faith in military commissions" and defended the Obama administration's plan.