The Obama administration’s forthcoming announcement that Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and other Sept. 11 conspirators prisoners will be tried in military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, is “clearly just a political decision,” Daphne Eviatar, a senior associate at Human Rights First, told TPM in an interview.The administration’s huge reversal on the issue, about to be announced by Attorney General Eric Holder, goes against what Obama said from the earliest days of his 2008 campaign.
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