No quarter, much like their amicus brief.

CCR questions the ability of anyone who is Muslim to receive a truly fair trial in any American judicial forum post-9/11. Both the military commission system and federal criminal trials have serious flaws. However, on balance the Ghailani verdict shows that federal criminal trials are far superior to military commissions for the simple yet fundamental reason that they prohibit evidence obtained by torture. If anyone is unsatisfied with Ghailani’s acquittal on 284 counts, they should blame the CIA agents who tortured him.

Credit to CCR for including the line “federal criminal trials have serious flaws.” Some of us on the left have had a hard time articulating that during some of these terrorism debates. I remember in 2005, in the wake of the warrantless-surveillance disclosure, the FISA Court suddenly went from being a rubber-stamp to the bulwark against total illegality. Anyway.