Times to City: Drop Dead 
The Obama administration appears to be backing away from one of its most grievous mistakes, the New York Post reports:

The trial of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed won't be held in lower Manhattan and could take place in a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, sources said last night.

Administration officials said that no final decision had been made but that officials of the Department of Justice and the White House were working feverishly to find a venue that would be less expensive and less of a security risk than New York City.

The back-to-the-future Gitmo option was reported yesterday by Fox News and was not disputed by White House officials.

The Guantanamo detention facility, of course, was supposed to have closed a week and a half ago. So much for that. MSNBC.com quotes Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, repeating a threat Obama himself once made:

"Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is going to meet justice and he's going to meet his maker," said President Barack Obama's press secretary, Robert Gibbs. "He will be brought to justice and he's likely to be executed for the heinous crimes that he committed in killing and masterminding the killing of 3,000 Americans. That you can be sure of."

A few years ago, we asked then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales why the Bush administration had placed such emphasis on trying terrorists for war crimes, as opposed to detaining them to keep them off the battlefield. He gave us an unsatisfying answer--something about how the families of terrorism's victims wanted to see the perpetrators "brought to justice." It occurred to us later that he might have been obliquely referring to the prospect of an execution--something he couldn't mention explicitly because it would create the appearance that the U.S. was running show trials.
It seems the Obama administration wants people to think it is running show trials.
The New York Times predictably denounces the administration for failing to stick to its insane position. The editorial titled "It Happened in Our Backyard"--in fact, the Times offices are miles away from Ground Zero and the federal courthouse where the trials would have taken place--begins with the assurance that "we sympathized with the concerns about security and inconvenience raised by the Justice Department's plan to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed" in Manhattan.
No such sympathy was evident, though, in the original editorial praising the decision in November. Here is what the paper said back then about critics of the administration's plan: "Republican lawmakers and the self-promoting independent senator from Connecticut, Joseph Lieberman, pounced on the chance to appear on television." The Times is as ideologically zealous as ever, but at least its editors now feel obliged to give lip service to New Yorkers who live in the real world.