The health care debate has (temporarily, no doubt) eclipsed the rage of the right over the Obama administration's plans to try terrorists in federal courts. Along the way, when it was pointed out that the Bush administration did the same, to the tune of some three hundred cases, the reaction of the right wing echo chamber was to deny it. To call the numbers false. Unsubstantiated. Suspicious. Such lights as Dana Perino and Jeff Sessions and Jon Kyl derided the claim with derisive derision.
Turns out they were right. The number of terrorism convictions in federal court under Bush wasn't anything close to three hundred. Shame on Obama for saying otherwise.
It was four hundred three.
