Paying the Price for Circumventing the Civilian Justice System

President Obama and Attorney General Holder began their term with a plan to close the Guantanamo Bay prison and to conduct civilian criminal trials for at least some detainees. When Congress blocked those plans, the Obama Administration worked on mending, not ending, the system of military commissions.

Yeah. Ditto on the article's last comment as to it being better if we just followed the regular rules in the first place. Hard to unring the bell now.