Contributed by: filbert Saturday, May 02 2009 @ 02:44 PM CST
New York Times[*1] article:
When President Obama suspended Guantánamo cases after his inauguration on Jan. 20, many participants said the military commission system appeared dead.
But in recent days a variety of officials involved in the deliberations say that after administration lawyers examined many of the cases, the mood shifted toward using military commissions to prosecute some detainees, perhaps including those charged with coordinating the Sept. 11 attacks.
“The more they look at it,” said one official, “the more commissions don’t look as bad as they did on Jan. 20.”
To misquote Star Wars, “This is not the Hopeful Changeyness you were looking for. Move along, move along.”