My old pal

Dahlia Lithwick published a very nice rundown of the ongoing US trials related to terrorism on Friday in Slate: Trials and Terrors – These are our banner terror trials? “Second, the administration must try a real terrorist for real acts of terror. [...] Reserving the courts for the small-fry sends the message that the Western legal system can only punish the pretty-bad. And treating each pretty-bad guy like he committed the crime of the century sends the message that justice was never really the point in the first place.”