Newswise — “The administration's decision to move the Khalid Shaikh Mohammed trial back to the military commission system is fraught with legal and political challenges.
“Although congressional opposition has forced the administration to back down from its plan to convene terrorism trials in federal district courts, the administration has simultaneously reopened a different set of problems by moving the trials back to a military commission.
“The world community continues to view the military commission system with skepticism, even though the Obama Administration has substantially revised the commission's procedures. Also, the military commission will have to determine whether confessions obtained from water-boarding Khalid Shaikh Mohammed are admissible in court.
“Whatever decision the military commission makes will determine not only the verdict and sentence after trial but also the verdict that the United States receives in the court of world opinion.”--Jens David Ohlin, an expert on domestic terror and assistant professor of Law at Cornell University
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