But remember, all of those people who said that he’d bring the world’s worst terrorists to America were just fearmongerers afraid of HopenChange.

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is looking at creating a courtroom-within-a-prison complex in the U.S. to house suspected terrorists, combining military and civilian detention facilities at a single maximum-security prison.

Several senior U.S. officials said the administration is eyeing a soon-to-be-shuttered state maximum security prison in Michigan and the 134-year-old military penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., as possible locations for a heavily guarded site to hold the 229 suspected al-Qaida, Taliban and foreign fighters now jailed at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.

The officials outlined the plans — the latest effort to comply with President Barack Obama’s order to close the prison camp by Jan. 22, 2010, and satisfy congressional and public fears about incarcerating terror suspects on American soil — on condition of anonymity because the options are under review.

How, exactly, does bringing the world’s worst terrorists to American soil put to rest the fears of the American public that the world’s worst terrorists will be brought to American soil? That’s some seriously hackish spin there.

Regardless of whether the terrorists are housed in a maximum security or not, they’re still being housed in facilities within our country’s borders. And let’s keep in mind that maximum security prisons aren’t escape-proof; quite a few individuals have escaped the prisons, including two convicted murderers from earlier this month.

Incidentally, I don’t see how this satisfies the left-wing, anti-Gitmo crowd either. So far, it seems like it won’t:

Scott Silliman, director of Duke University’s Center on Law, Ethics and National Security, called the proposal “totally unprecedented” and said he doubts the plan would work without Congress’ involvement because new laws probably would be needed. Otherwise, “we gain nothing — all we do in create a Guantanamo in Kansas or wherever,” Silliman said.

So you end up pissing off both the pro- and anti-Gitmo crowds. The former because you’re moving terrorists to American soil, the latter because you just end up with a Gitmo-like facility here rather than in Cuba. What exactly do we get out of this, then? You know, besides placing the lives and safety of American citizens at risk.

Recall that Obama’s committee on Gitmo has delayed the release of its report on what to do with the detainees until about the time that Obama’s ordered the facilities closed. We won’t even know their recommendations until the facility is no longer in operation. Bringing the terrorists to American soil was the clear intention of the Obama Administration from the start.