This isn’t aimed to be a “confession.” They’ll use it as a platform.
Yup: circus trials. It's worked in the past, through orchestration of counsel. After all, social justice would compel us to save them from themselves, wouldn't it? /sarc
For the first time, the Pentagon arranged for relatives of 9/11 victims to travel to Guantánamo to attend the session. A group of them, who spoke to reporters afterward, said they were struck by the extensive rights accorded the accused men. One of the relatives, Hamilton Peterson, said he was offended by the detainees, who he said were sneering and laughing in the courtroom. “They seemed to view these proceedings as a joke,” Mr. Peterson said.