Last week, President Obama's advisers told reporters that they'd soon recommend that the president propose a "deal" with Congress on the Guantanamo Bay detainees. Obama would drop his insistence that the detainees be tried in civilian courts and instead let them be tried in military tribunals in exchange for Congress allowing (and funding) the closing of the Gitmo facility and the moving of the detainees to US prisons. Only in Washington could bureaucrats hatch such a deal to trade one deeply unpopular proposal for another. Trying Guantanamo detainees in America and moving them to US prisons are indefensible and dangerous...