At 9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America, Tim Sumner has the low-down on yesterday’s hastily arranged dog-and-pony show during which White House briefers told the 9/11 families that military commissions would be re-started … but not against the 9/11 plotters. Basically, the plan is to do nothing (except, I reckon, take a few guilty pleas from some of the less notorious detainees, which will facilitate their extradition to some gateway back to the jihad). Otherwise, the administration will continue blaming Congress for a stalemate — lawmakers having taken the position, overwhelmingly supported by the public, that enemy combatant terrorists should not be brought into the U.S. and given all the rights of American citizens in civilian trials. It is, as I said yesterday, a cynical strategy to create the illusion of movement while making the issue disappear for purposes of the 2012 election. It could work, but I doubt it — there’s a lot of time between now and then, and it’s foolish to think events won’t supersede these calculations.