Today’s NY Times:
Khalid Sheik Mohammed — the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks — and four co-defendants will be tried in federal court in New York instead of a military commission, a federal official said Friday morning.
I’m glad that we are finally allowing the rule of law to judge the guilt or innocence of people we’ve been holding in prison for years. But I wonder how they’re planning on keeping the whole torture thing out of court?