1.0 link 228109 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-worthington/military-commissions-gove_b_228109.html In a major national security speech on May 21, President Obama demonstrated an unnerving ability to keep too many options on the table by proposing five possible courses of action for the prisoners at Guantánamo: release or transfer, trials in federal courts, trials in a revamped version of the Military Commissions (the "terror trials" introduced by former Vice President Dick Cheney in November 2001), and indefinite detention. As I mentioned in an article last week, "At...

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