He has added some rights for the defendants, but is showing that he ran to the left of the way he is governing, esp. on
security issues. I think he pays close attention to his military advisor, Gates, and Petreaus.
Indeed, and some of the rights he gave are the sort of things we usually expect within our Justice System and courts, so I don't have a problem on the surface with such revised tribunals.
I think he's trying to be pragmatic, and also politically able to be accused by the right of being an appeaser or whatever.
