Indefinite Detention

Spencer Ackerman wrote Apoplexy, Abdication, And An Indefinite Detention Without Trial For Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.

"So can the Obama administration manage to reach a decision more craven than this one? According to the Washington Post, the months-long internal administration deadlock over trying Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and the other 9/11 co-conspirators has resulted in a decision: apoplexy. No trying them in federal courts in New York; no trying them at Guantanamo Bay in a military commission. Just… nothing.

The Post story is something of a mixture between reporting a decision and inviting administration officials to opine on the predicament they’re in. There’s basically a no-decision here: administration officials feel buffeted between conservative opposition to a civilian trial and liberal opposition to military commissions. Aww, poor them!"

And here's the best sentence I've read in a while: "And that’s the maddening thing. The Obama team talks about a “different political environment” as if it has nothing to do with creating one."

I honestly never understood the fear mongering about a trial in NYC. This whole Greenwald piece is good, but the embedded video makes the case well.