re: #133 Killgore Trout

It’s possible but I think Bush painted himself into a corner with Gitmo. It was a nice experiment in transparency but there were too many legal issues involved. We simply couldn’t hold people there forever and making a legal case against them was too problematic. It was a nice experiment but they should have been put in secret black sites where they could be held indefinitely without public scrutiny.

I’m going to say the Republican controlled congress helped. They tried for military tribunal enabling legislation in ‘06 but it was hackneyed legislation that went down in flames in court. Had they ignored politics and done it right most of the trials would have been over by now.