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HOPE AND CHANGE SAME! Panetta: If Bin Laden Is Captured, We?ll Send Him To Gitmo: If the U.S. c?

By Glenn Reynolds

HOPE AND CHANGE SAME! Panetta: If Bin Laden Is Captured, We’ll Send Him To Gitmo:

If the U.S. captures top al-Qaida leaders Osama Bin Laden or Ayman al-Zawahiri, they would likely be sent to the Guantanamo Bay military prison, CIA Director Leon Panetta told senators Wednesday.

This suggests that, given the choice, President Barack Obama would not try the men in the U.S. court system, opting instead for the Bush administration’s policy that the president has long criticized.

I remember when Guantanamo was an inhuman hellhole stupidly insisted upon by the Evil Bush NeoCons. Now it’s an important national security asset, reluctantly employed by our dedicated warriors against terrorism.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on February 17, 2011 (boomark / email).