Or is there some other interpretation of a five-and-a-half-year sentence, with five years’ credit for time served pending trial, for someone the Bushies tried to paint as a major terrorist?
One one point I’m genuinely puzzled: does the Military Commissions Act repeal the Constitutional ban on ex post facto laws? Or how is it that Hamdan could be convicted under the “material assistance” clause for events that happened years before that clause was written into law?
