Salim Hamdan's military tribunal, which came to a close with his unexpectedly light sentencing this week, may never draw comparisons to Nurememberg -- that great, if flawed, monument to the rule of law -- but in my mind it will always stand as something just as important: A symbol of the strength of America's values and the durability of our Constitution.
To defend this admittedly grandiose claim, I should probably start at the beginning.
Four-and-a-half years ago I went down...
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