An Interesting Point on the Gitmo Show Trials

Over at Will Bunch's Attytood, an interesting point is made:

But the timing of this strikes me as just a little bit too much of a coincidence here. The likely unraveling of Guantanamo is Bush's worst nightmare. A legitimate criminal trial under American laws of jurisprudence would expose the worst of the Bush-Cheney torture regime, including waterboarding techniques, and have a result that nobody in this debate wants: Making it impossible to gain real justice against the 9/11 planners, because of inadmissable evidence.

A quick trial under military rules, and a speedy execution, is the only long-shot hope for Bush and Cheney for making the worst of the torture nightmare that they've created go away. That said, this new push for an execution is likely to rally more opinion around the world -- the death penalty has been abolished or is not used in most civilized nations -- against the United States; at the risk of appearing cynical, I doubt this decision would be announced if Mitt Romney and his famed "double Guantanamo" move or if Rudy Giuliani were still viable candidates.

But as today's articles note, it is unlikely, with appeals and the like, that any conviction and death penalty could be carried out as quickly as January. That lays the problem on the lap of the next president -- regardless of whether it's McCain, Clinton or Obama -- who would have to either affirm the military tribunals, or else declare on the first day of their presidency that one of their first officials acts will be to overturn a death sentence for a 9/11 mastermind.

These are sick evil bastards, and I'm not referring to the 911 terrorists.