Serving as a microcosm for the the failure that is the political, anti-human rights,  anti-Constitution, illegal military tribunals at where-torture-began Guantanamo, the new site for the tribunals was not a success.

As the Miami Herald reports: "The Pentagon took its new $12 million war court complex out for a test run Wednesday with the arraignment of an alleged al Qaeda propagandist -- and the state-of-the-art facility failed.

"Military escorts scrambled to halt the proceedings and notify the judge -- even as the accused offered hand-written notes to the court."

Though somehow not surprising, it was fitting that the debut of the new military tribunal complex was a failure.  However, it was definitely a waste of $12 million of American taxpayers' dollars spent on this illegal travesty of justice venue.