The NY Terrorist Trial Controversy

Sullivan explains the significance of a civilian court rather than a military one. Anything that makes John Yoo apopleptic is good in my book. I love thinking about Dick Cheney squirming as the news of the day comes out that all that waterboarding he ordered was useless and stupid, just as he was useless and stupid. And profoundly evil, a word I try not to use so as not to cheapen its meaning.

But what an open civilian case will also do - and it's why a war criminal like John Yoo is so apoplectic - is reveal the extent to which the brutal torture of KSM was unnecessary, and led to the government's inability to prosecute him to the full extent of the law.