A federal appeals court yesterday backed the Bush administration’s plan to let special panels of military officers conduct trials of terrorism suspects detained in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, overturning a lower-court decision that has blocked the “military commissions” for the past eight months. Click here for rest of story.

This ruling is a threat to us all. Bush II is drunk with power. If he could get away with it, he would charge anyone he wanted to as a terrorism suspect and throw them into either Guantanamo or into a ship at sea, and then toss away the keys.