Obama and the Trial of Khalid Sheik Mohammed

The Washington Post has an article saying he is "planning to insert himself" into the selection of the place KSM should be tried. 

Oh really, do they really think he had nothing to say to Eric Holder about this when he turned it over to him to decide?  If that is truly the case he is far more inept than I thought.  I think this was done with the full concurrence of the President. It is insulting, and he has done it to himself, to think he had nothing to do with the selection or the type of trial it would be.  Is he not THE PRESIDENT of the United States?

Here is what the WaPo says:
Obama will help select location of Khalid Sheik Mohammed terrorism trial

By Anne E. Kornblut and Carrie Johnson

President Obama is planning to insert himself into the debate about where to try the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, three administration officials said Thursday, signaling a recognition that the administration had mishandled the process and triggered a political backlash.

Obama initially had asked Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to choose the site of the trial in an effort to maintain an independent Justice Department. But the White House has been taken aback by the intense criticism from political opponents and local officials of Holder's decision to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed in a civilian courtroom in New York.

Administration officials acknowledge that Holder and Obama advisers were unable to build political support for the trial. And Holder, in an interview Thursday, left open the possibility that Mohammed's trial could be switched to a military commission, although he said that is not his personal and legal preference.

Read it all here.