If You Have To Explain Trump 2016 To People

After two decades of criminal appellate litigation complicated by Bush-era interrogation techniques, a career military prosecutor got KSM to agree to plead guilty to his heinous crimes. He’ll spend the rest of his miserable life at the mercy and whim of godless infidels.

I’m… https://t.co/U9rO6yAIiD

— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) August 1, 2024

I mean, if you are apparently addressing people born in 2006…

How do you get them stirred up about 9/11? I don’t mean the event, I mean the aftermath and Gitmo and “Bush-era interrogation techniques” (I prefer the more accurate “torture,” but Moss and I don’t agree on everything), and, two decades of legal wrangling?

Politically, I don’t see this jumping to anybody’s front burner.

The nice thing about not running for reelection is you can make unpopular decisions -- like pleading out the 9/11 masterminds and trading spies for journalists -- you might otherwise delay.

Now make get cannabis legalization done (I know he's working on it).

— emptywheel (srian) (@emptywheel) August 1, 2024

That’s how this is going to shake out. Besides, the “plea agreement” is life in prison. What ends are the endless appeals.