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clipped from latimesblogs.latimes.com Speaking of military tribunals, we went back into the video archives and found this C-SPAN tape below. Holder might want to watch it. It contains his boss, Barack Obama, a brief member of that same Senate, in 2006 stating that a military tribunal was a perfectly fine way of handling such dangerous individuals as Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. Obama said the fight against terrorism was "an extraordinarily difficult war" where terrorists could plot undetected from within our own borders. The freshman Illinois senator was defending a legislative amendment and pointed out that a military tribunal for Mohammed seemed just fine to him. "The irony of the underlying bill as it's written is that someone like Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is going to get basically a full military trial with all the bells and whistles. He's gonna have counsel. He's gonna be able to present evidence to rebut the government's case.... I think we will convict him. And I think justice will be carried out."