re: #11 Walter L. Newton

I’m going to go off topic early… I suspect this is sort of a semi-open thread… delete this if needed…

Administration halts prosecution of alleged USS Cole bomber

The DoJ is kind of screwed no matter what they do. Either you continue to hold detainees in violation of the Constitution, or you try them in court. If you try them in court, then the fact that they’ve been tortured, mistreated and held for years without trial makes whatever evidence was gathered completely useless for legal purposes. It’s also been my understanding that in most if not all of those cases, there wasn’t really any evidence collected to begin with.