Ghailani

It’s funny how on the same day that that the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to be tried in federal court arrives in New York for booking in a federal prison, the Justice Department decides to send out a “fact sheet” detailing all the wonderful success it’s had prosecuting terrorists in U.S. federal courts.

Perhaps to make the point that it can be done without risking U.S. lives, the Obama administration announced it will transfer Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian man indicted more than a decade ago on charges that he helped plan the 1998 bombing of the American Embassy in Tanzania. Ghailani was a fugitive until 2004, however, [...]