THE QUESTION

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In a meeting with the press in China, President Obama said that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would be "convicted" and had "the death penalty applied to him" . . . and then said he wasn't "pre-judging" the case. He made the second statement after it was pointed out to him — by NBC's Chuck Todd — that the first statement would be taken as the president's interfering in the trial process.

Obama said that wasn't his intention. I'm sure it wasn't — he's trying to contain the political damage caused by his decision — but that won't matter. He has given the defense its first motion that the executive branch, indeed the president himself, is tainting the jury pool.

Nice work.

[And there you have it: This inane decision can only result in a) a farce in which they're given a 'fair' trial - "before we hang 'em", or b) acquittal. due to lack of Miranda warnings and a bevy of other 'technicalities' for which criminals are routinely set free by our courts. I.e., a travesty of just either way, for all the world to see.

It's about re-trying the war and the Bush administration, harm to our country be damned.]

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