Obama to Bring Back Military Tribunals Which He Opposed As Professional Candidate

From the NYTs article:

The military commissions, which were established specifically for trying Guantánamo detainees, have been subject to repeated delays and court challenges that argued that detainees were being denied basic rights of American law. Only two trials have been completed in the nearly eight years since the Bush administration announced that it would use military tribunals.

I have said this over and over to the bozos that say the detainees haven’t had “justice” and “who did Bush prosecute”…. that the attempts to give the detainees a prompt commission were thwarted by ACLU lawyers and lawsuits that dragged out their detention longer than necessary.

Also from the article:

Officials who work on the Guantánamo issue say administration lawyers have become concerned that they would face significant obstacles to trying some terrorism suspects in federal courts. Judges might make it difficult to prosecute detainees who were subjected to brutal treatment or for prosecutors to use hearsay evidence gathered by intelligence agencies.

Gee… ya think? This was the reason for not running enemy combatants thru the US judicidial system to begin with, and why these commissions were set up. But nooooo…. Obama and his progressive cronies made this a political campaign issue with their opposition, demonizing Bush. And the gullible O’faithful fell for the BS hook, line and sinker.

But then, Obama admin considering returning to what Bush had tried to construct to keep these animals out of the US courts is a good thing.