KSM Decision Long Overdue

摘要

After a year of heated arguments and abuse heaped on those who disagreed with its position, the Obama administration finally reversed itself April 4, and decided to prosecute 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his co-conspirators before a military commission, instead of in a civilian trial in New York City. Holder claimed that his case against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was a thing of glittering procedural beauty, a prosecutorial snowflake made of diamonds, "one of the most well-researched and documented cases" he had ever seen in his "decades of experience as a prosecutor."