People. Obama backed down on trying KSM in federal court. Whatever he says, he was never, ever going to try bin Laden in one.
@attackerman That assumes the political forces made it impossible bc of the security and not the torture, doesn't it?
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@emptywheel it does, and I think that's the simpler explanation. This issue is a political totem before it's anything else. -
@attackerman@emptywheel FWIW, Owens' book says WH lawyers prepped the seals for possibility of capture.
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