Of the 775 terrorist suspects detained by the U.S. at Guantanamo Bay, not one has been tried for a crime. The Washington Post’s Josh White reports that this trend will likely persist a “year or longer.”  It has already been going on for seven.

Army prosecutors were hoping to use military commissions on six detainees allegedly involved in the 9/11 attacks by the end of the Bush administration. One Pentagon official noted the “strategic political value” of such trials. But the reliance on a separate brand of justice—the military commissions set up by Congress and the president in the fall of 2006—has led to legal questions every step of the way.  Read White here.  MB

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