Dahlia Lithwick at Slate has at the Khadr/Hamdan dismissals:
By far, the most stunning aspect of the dismissed charges against Omar Khadr and Salim Ahmed Hamdan芒鈧漷he only two Guantanamo detainees staring down the barrel of a military trial芒鈧漺as that the two military judges in the cases (not one but two, mind you) dismissed them sua sponte, that is to say, without significant briefing or argument from the defense. (It does appear that Hamdan made a motion to do so, but only immediately after Army Col. Peter Brownback had ruled in Khadr's case.) That two military officers芒鈧滲rownback and Navy Capt. Keith Allred芒鈧漝evised their own rationales for dismissing the charges is an astonishing development.