Kind of an interesting conundrum. What comes out in the trial will likely look bad on the US, mainly the tourture, but the plea deal could be a liability for the current admin, since they’d be accused of being soft on terrorism.
ETA: Plus more could come out about the security failures of 9/11 which could be pretty embarrassing to the US.
What conundrum? The US has people in jail for decades without a trial like some medieval country ruled by a psychopathic king, and when someone finals manages to untangle the mess by removing a penalty that’s barbaric on its own, the peanut gallery finally gets all worked up.
It’s times like this that I remember that the US is moraly closer to Russia than to western Europe.
Kind of an interesting conundrum. What comes out in the trial will likely look bad on the US, mainly the tourture, but the plea deal could be a liability for the current admin, since they’d be accused of being soft on terrorism.
ETA: Plus more could come out about the security failures of 9/11 which could be pretty embarrassing to the US.
What conundrum? The US has people in jail for decades without a trial like some medieval country ruled by a psychopathic king, and when someone finals manages to untangle the mess by removing a penalty that’s barbaric on its own, the peanut gallery finally gets all worked up.
It’s times like this that I remember that the US is moraly closer to Russia than to western Europe.