What’s the Point of Those Military Commissions Again?

Yesterday’s announcement that the Obama administration will try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other 9/11 suspects in federal court has been hailed as everything from “an important step forward for justice” by Human Rights Watch to “a step backwards for the security of our country [that] puts Americans More…

Boo Bush’s Ad-Hoc-ism! Yay Obama’s Ad-Hoc-ism!

To build on Daphne’s point, how can President Obama reconcile these two claims?

The decisions that were made over the last eight years established an ad hoc legal approach for fighting terrorism that was neither effective nor sustainable – a framework that failed to rely on our legal traditions

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