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It seems military commissions might not be so bad after all.(THE WEEK)(Brief article)
It seems military commissions might not be so bad after all. In one of its recent Friday-night inconvenient-news dumps, the Obama administration let slip that trials by commission--the Bush military-justice model for war crimes that was vigorously attacked by Candidate Obama and his supporters, such as now--Attorney General Eric Holder--are back in play. In January, the administration ordered a four-month adjournment so it could study the commission proceedings now pending against 21 of the most notorious terrorists being held at Guantanamo Bay (including the 9/11 plotters and the bombers ...
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