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: Dispatches from the Culture WarsObama May Cave on Civilian Trials
By Ed Brayton
It's looking more and more likely that President Obama is going to cave to political pressure, overrule Attorney General Eric Holder and pull the plug on civilian trials for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other detainees with a direct role in the 9/11 attacks.
The fact that he was only providing such trials for a few detainees while still claiming the authority to hold any detainee indefinitely without any charges at all means that policy was always hypocritical, but at least it meant some degree of justice for a few of the detainees. If he caves on this, even that little progress will be gone. Glenn Greenwald responds:
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