Key Figure in Bush’s Military Commissions Set for Obama Job

Washington Independent by Spencer Ackmann | Feb. 9, 2010 (News Report)

Lietzau will be central to decisions about trying the remaining Guantanamo detainees in reformed military commissions or in federal courts, and to the construction of a new terrorism detention policy. Full Story »

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 by Ben Ross - Feb. 9, 2010

behind the scenes appointment...will this make MSM, I doubt it.....

.shows the radical lengths the Obama administration is willing to go to to find a yes man, while avoid the fifth amendment.

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