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MY GUESS IS, HE?LL DO WHATEVER THE BOSS SAYS: Today?s Washington Post reports: ?The Obama ad?

By Glenn Reynolds

MY GUESS IS, HE’LL DO WHATEVER THE BOSS SAYS:

Today?s Washington Post reports: ?The Obama administration is preparing to revive the system of military commissions established at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, under new rules that would offer terrorism suspects greater legal protections, government officials said.?

But State Department legal adviser nominee Harold Koh has maintained that no set of modifications to the rules governing military commissions can ?dispel[] the fatal global perception of unfairness? that he believes they suffer from.

Of course, when Obama does it, the “global perception” is likely to be less fatal, because, you know, it’s Obama doing it.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on May 09, 2009 (boomark / email).