What speaks volumes here is the bad PR job done in explaining why this happened. In the absence of information, people will come to their own conclusion whether correct or not. Don’t blame people for a reaction created by the poor way in which this announcement was made.
There are articles about this on the NY Times, WaPo, ABC and other news sites that explain it in detail. It’s the responsibility of citizens to inform themselves and not respond emotionally and in an uninformed knee-jerk way to a headline. I thought conservatism was all about individual responsibility?
It’s not only bad PR and it’s not only that people don’t understand a procedural move.
The problem lies with the reason the procedural move was required in the first place. Barry was so intent on impressing somebody, somewhere - his Code Pink/Michael Moore coterie? the members of his 57 (Muslim) states? - by halting the trials prior to closing Gitmo that he never even considered what legal havoc it might create.
Sorry, nobody can excuse him. The fact remains that he didn’t really care one way or another either about the Cole victims or the 9/11 victims. It was all about Barry and some promise he had made to somebody, probably in exchange for lots of money. There was no reason he had to rush in and do this right now unless he had to prove his bona fides. And now he’s trying to cover it up.