Yep, the scope of the article is removing the prisoners and closing the prison.

I am simply lamenting the return of the perspective that Al Quaeda types being treated as criminals.

Hard to quantify exactly what I see them as, but defendants in federal court isn't it.

I believe that the Clinton administration responded to the first world trade center bombing with federal indictments which serves as a thumbnail of his misunderstanding of the situation.

I would prefer to see KSM executed incident to a tribunal in GTMO.