From the departments of fearmongering and wishful thinking:
"Well, I think it's absurd, and I think the Obama administration will be as much on trail as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed... And God help us if they get off on a technicality because of the way the evidence was gathered. I would tell you not only is the Obama administration finished, I think the Democratic Party is finished."This would carry a bit more weight if most neutral observers hadn't concluded long ago that Mike Huckabee is a blithering idiot. So as a registered Dem I'm not all that worried. Still, I do think the over-heated rhetoric bellies a fear within conservative ranks that has less to do with terrorists walking free and more to do with destroying the neocon narrative. Here's Marcy Wheeler arguing that John Yoo's real concern with putting KSM on trial is that it will show torture tactics were, gulp, unnecessary:
What the trial will likely show, instead, is that there was a great deal of information already available before they started torturing KSM. It’ll show that the KSM expert in FBI–-who we know was never allowed to get close to the Yoo-sanctioned torture sessions–-knew much if not all of the stuff that KSM was blabbing away after being waterboarded the 183rd time.
That’s the real risk for Yoo: not the illegal actions that the trial will expose. But how much evidence there was independent of Yoo’s little torture shop.
Now there's a happy bit of collateral damage for the Obama Justice Department.
