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Dark_Falcon7/09/2009 8:19:38 pm PDT

re: #47 jcm

Confusion in the Administration?

Johnson Opens the Door to Post-Acquittal Detentions

So what’s the point of sticking them in the civilian system if your going to hang on to them anyway? Why all the effort and cost of a trial?

Sounds like wanting to have their cake and eat it too.

Obama wants to talk about trials so he doesn’t look like he’s doing a ‘180 on enemy combatants. He’s figured out that he can’t let some of these men go, ever, but his base would go even more crazy than usual if he admitted it.