The Pentagon lacks the lawyers and other legal resources necessary to defend six Guantanamo Bay detainees in a planned military commissions trial. The New York Times’ William Glaberson reports that while Defense is out of resources, the CIA and FBI have the prosecutors they need.

The Bush administration’s call to try the six would have been the first use of the military commission system. But what the administration probably viewed as a way to win back people to the “war on terror” has become another poorly-planned headache.  Read Glaberson here. MB

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