KSM Back to GITMO?

More than a year after promising to close GITMO and nearly six months after announcing that KSM would be tried in New York, we're coming full circle.

Top advisers to President Obama are close to a decision recommending that the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks be prosecuted in a military tribunal, The Washington Post reported Friday, citing unnamed administration officials.

According to the report, the president's advisers have grown increasingly wary of bipartisan opposition to the planned civilian federal trial in New York City, mere blocks from where nearly 3,000 Americans were killed in the spectacular attack on the World Trade Center.

Worse yet, from both a political and policy level, this is the best outcome for the White House. We are back where we started and that's the best that could have happened.