Still Brilliant at Doing Evil

[akirlu]

I heard bits of reporting on these events via NPR -- still maybe better than the corporate networks for news -- but didn't put the pieces together: Digby thinks that allowing Khalid Sheik Mohammed the extended opportunity to talk to his fellow defendants in the Gitmo courtroom long enough that he could browbeat even the reluctant ones into forgoing counsel was a calculated move on the part of the Cheney administration to speed the show trials and guarantee conviction without the tedious impediment of due process or competent counsel. Now that I think about it, I think she's probably right. The military have been scrupulous at keeping the prisoners separated and isolated until now precisely to prevent collusion among them. Now that they're being tried, that supposed security measure is no longer necessary? How is that, exactly? And how convenient that Khalid Sheik Mohammed did exactly what you would expect, and ordered everyone under him to do as he planned to do himself -- give up counsel and martyr themselves to the cause. Who could have predicted that, given his public declarations?

There are times I really wish there were a just God, so that there might be a fiery Hell, so that Dick Cheney and George Bush could burn in it for all eternity, and suffer the tortures of all their victims, over, and over, and over again. TANJ.