re: #92 Cato the Elder

Charles, have you seen this yet?

Judge rejects Obama bid to stall Gitmo trial.

Administration shocked!

re: #106 Shug

The judge, Army Col. James Pohl, said his decision was difficult but necessary to protect “the public interest in a speedy trial.” The ruling came in the case against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri. The bombing of the Navy destroyer in 2000 in the harbor of Aden, Yemen, killed 17 U.S.

speedy?
The Cole was bombed 9 years ago!

Very good point. One of the reasons the outcry over Gitmo gained so much traction is that people like al-Nashiri and KSM have been held for years without trials and sentencing. Some of them have confessed, yet nothing is done.

Try the cases, dammit, don’t shut down the prison and make it some other jurisdiction’s problem!

Note that these delays until now have of course not been Obama’s fault, but a matter of obscure policy by the Bush administration. I never could figure out why it was being done like that.