Beneficiary Impact Statement

The Zacarias Moussaoui trial has already been very odd; if their client would just shut up, his lawyers could save his life. But things could get even stranger as soon as on Thursday, according to CNN:

Rudy Giuliani, who led New York through its darkest days after the September 11 terrorist attacks, will be among the first witnesses when the death penalty trial of Zacarias Moussaoui resumes on Thursday, CNN has learned.

In addition, the lone cockpit voice recorder recovered from the four hijacked planes will be played publicly for the first time, the judge has ruled.

Giuliani, the former mayor of New York who some consider a possible presidential candidate in 2008, will testify about the impact of 9/11 as a witness for the government.

Giuliani is no different from any other bereaved New Yorker from 9/11, and of course by his own dubious testimony, Moussaoui was scheduled to be on a plane flying into the White House, not NYC -- although the standard theory is that he was the missing 2oth hijacker, of which there are two.

But since Rudy will be on the stand, under oath, why don't Moussaoui's lawyers ask him how, amid all the chaos, he found the time for this:

Spontaneously [on 9-11], I grabbed the arm of then Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik and said to Bernie, "Thank God George Bush is our President."

If Moussaoui had told the truth to the FBI, how would we have known how blessed we were?