Obama prepares to start up military tribunals for Gitmo detainees.

(Via Just One Minute) Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia, you know:

U.S. May Revive Guantánamo Military Courts

The Obama administration is moving toward reviving the military commission system for prosecuting Guantánamo detainees, which was a target of critics during the Bush administration, including Mr. Obama himself.

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When President Obama suspended Guantánamo cases after his inauguration on Jan. 20, many participants said the military commission system appeared dead.

Mind you, other people suggested that the President’s actions back then were possibly just an attempt to give him maneuvering room while he came up with a way to keep the status quo going.  Which leads to an interesting scenario: let us say that the President decides to run military tribunals for Gitmo detainees.  Let us also say that he (with a little help from Congress*) steamrollers over current opposition to those tribunals.  Once those tribunals are done, and the existing detainees are processed… what’s stopping the President from continuing to keep Gitmo operating?  After all, did he not just ‘reform’ it?  It’d certainly be cheaper to keep an existing facility going than to shut it down and create a new one.  Fiscal responsibility is good, right?

And what would any critics plan to do about it, anyway?

Vote Republican?

Moe Lane

PS: Jim Geraghty: “All Barack Obama Statements Come With an Expiration Date. All Of Them.”

*Not to mention his Old and New Media lapdogs, many of whom would reveal themselves in the course of said steamrolling.

Crossposted to RedState.