re: #191 iceweasel

Obama’s a pragmatist. Reading between the lines it was pretty clear that he would retain the Bush framework of commissions and trials. Also, the Bush admin fucked up the evidence gathering in so many ways that these guys probably can’t be convicted in a criminal court (some of them).

Well, I think the whole legal premise of Gitmo is flawed. I do think it was an honest attempt at an open and transparent way of dealing with these guys but it doesn’t seem to work very well. Now that we have them it’s tough to deal with them legally. It is much easier to go back to CIA black sites and render them to the Pakistanis or whatever. It is uglier but it’s out of the public eye so it doesn’t seem to be as much of an issue. Out of sight, out of mind.