...Advocates have called on Biden to consider alternatives to commission trials, including plea deals that could give prisoners credit for time served. Already, one prisoner, Majid Khan, is set to be released as early as next year as part of a plea arrangement that required his cooperation and headed off proceedings that could have revealed new information about his mistreatment by the CIA.
In a statement, the office of military commissions declined to speculate about when trials could end, citing the complexity of the cases.
Khan’s lead defense attorney, Wells Dixon, of the Center for Constitutional Rights, is among the lawyers who have characterized the military commissions as broken beyond repair.
“If you believe the military commissions were established in order to provide justice for terrorist attacks like 9/11, they have been a complete failure,” Dixon said. “But if the military commissions operate to provide a veneer of legal process to maintain the status quo, they’ve been a tremendous success.”
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