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clipped from neoneocon.com It’s worth reading the whole thing; a short excerpt doesn’t do justice to the scope of McCarthy’s argument. But make sure you take a tranquilizer first, because your sense of outrage might just reach a fever pitch otherwise: In sum, by moving the case to civilian court this far into the process, the Obama administration sinks down the drain the years of work that went into pretrial litigation in the military court — work that cost taxpayers untold millions of dollars. That is, despite that talk about avoiding delay, the administration has gratuitously saddled the public with years of wasted effort, years of extra work, and mountains of extra expense… KSM & Co. were ready, a year ago, to plead guilty in their military commission and proceed to execution. If the Obama administration had gone forward with the case, it would already be over.