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I think that arguments toward the nature of "damned if you do, damned if you don't" are probably going to get made. If you eschew the civilian court system, then people will question whether we are in deed, a Nation of Laws (notwithstanding the fact that military laws I guess are laws too). If you go the civilian route as we are doing, then to what end? There is no question as to the guilt of the defendants, and sort of by their own admission they are then going to hijack (ooh, too soon?) the procedings as a platform to spew their hateful filth. We're giving them what they wanted, an international pulpit to condemn us...WE'RE giving it to them.

It's times like this I wish there was a convenient Captain Louis Renault to take care of the trash, then pick up the phone and say "Kalid Sheikh Mohammad has been shot...round up the usual suspects."