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During a segment today Shep Smith reacted strongly after being assured that even if Ahmed Ghailani wasn’t found guilty civilian court the United States would continue to hold him as a military detainee. This proved too much for Shep: “What sort of example is the “shining city on a hill” setting, Shep wanted to know.

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Last night, Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, and Rachel Maddow all took to the airwaves to criticize Republican lawmakers for their reluctance to see Khalid Sheikh Mohammed tried before a civilian court in New York. The trial seems poised to become the media spectacle we predicted it would this past weekend — but why? Do the left-right battle lines along which this seems to be falling even make sense?