George Bush is Looking Smarter Every Day

Apparently that's the conclusion the Obama team is coming to as they prepare to revive the military tribunals at Gitmo that they condemned during the campaign and stopped immediately after taking office:

The Obama administration is moving toward reviving the military commission system for prosecuting Guantánamo detainees, which was a target of critics during the Bush administration, including Mr. Obama himself.

Officials said the first public moves could come as soon as next week, perhaps in filings to military judges at the United States naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, outlining an administration plan to amend the Bush administration’s system to provide more legal protections for terrorism suspects.

Continuing the military commissions in any form would probably prompt sharp criticism from human rights groups as well as some of Mr. Obama’s political allies because the troubled system became an emblem of the effort to use Guantánamo to avoid the American legal system.

Officials who work on the Guantánamo issue say administration lawyers have become concerned that they would face significant obstacles to trying some terrorism suspects in federal courts. Judges might make it difficult to prosecute detainees who were subjected to brutal treatment or for prosecutors to use hearsay evidence gathered by intelligence agencies.

Obama administration officials — and Mr. Obama himself — have said in the past that they were not ruling out prosecutions in the military commission system. But senior officials have emphasized that they prefer to prosecute terrorism suspects in existing American courts. When President Obama suspended Guantánamo cases after his inauguration on Jan. 20, many participants said the military commission system appeared dead.

But in recent days a variety of officials involved in the deliberations say that after administration lawyers examined many of the cases, the mood shifted toward using military commissions to prosecute some detainees, perhaps including those charged with coordinating the Sept. 11 attacks.

“The more they look at it,” said one official, “the more commissions don’t look as bad as they did on Jan. 20.”

As Hot Air notes, this info was released late on Friday night. That's what you do when you don't want anyone to notice a particular story.

If they go through with this it will absolutely set the wacky left in full unhinged mode. Their tinfoil hats will fly 20 feet in the air. It will be a beautiful thing to see.

It will also likely mean that Gitmo will not be going away anytime soon. That promise to close Al Qaeda's exclusive Caribbean resort will probably go by the wayside.

Better get some more sunblock for the boys at Gitmo - they're not going anywhere for awhile.