NYT: Sec'y Gates to lift ban on Gitmo tribunals

[Winehole23]

The process for trying and disposing of combatant cases has been fine until this war.

The criminal system still works. It was good enough for Ghailani, who was recently found guilty and sentenced in the routine way.

Obama's predecessor did not decline to keep prosecuting terrorists in the pre 9/11 way. Why should we?

[coyotes_geek]

I thought they finally would get a fair trial... Oh well... at least if this gets the cases moving again they can maybe appeal to the justice system, much like what happened in the Habeas cases.

Doesn't matter if they get a fair trial or not. The Obama administration has already asserted they have the right to continue detaining them even if they're acquitted.

[ElNono]

Doesn't matter if they get a fair trial or not. The Obama administration has already asserted they have the right to continue detaining them even if they're acquitted.

What they say and do are two different things. Originally they said they wouldn't have access to habeas, and once a judge ruled they would, they had to cave. When the discussion shifts from administration-defendant to administration-judicial, that's where the bluffs normally end. As they should.