This is a fascinating example of unintended consequences. You’d have thought that the President’s remarks, outlined in the article, would constitute typical political rhetoric. Not as Commander in Chief.

Military jurisdiction and its thresholds of scrutiny and due process are distinct from those in civil and criminal jurisdictions. The President, I seems, stumbled across these distinctions in his remarks.

Here’s the article: Obama Words Complicating Military Trials

Fascinating!

– Bromley