Obama Administration Floats Trial Balloon on Resuming Gitmo Military Tribunals

The Obama administration is moving toward reviving the military commission system for prosecuting Guantánamo detainees, which was a target of critics during the Bush administration, including Mr. Obama himself.

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Read entire NYTIMES piece.

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This “trial balloon” should be shot down as quickly as possible. To resume the Bush kangaroo kourts at Gitmo would be a betrayal of the first order and a callous political and legal move. The “Audacity of Hope”, in deed!!

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