The New York Times recently featured law professors Jack Balkin of Yale and Eric Posner of U of C debating whether or not to put Dick Cheney on trial.

(The original source of the video is bloggingheads.tv, a sort of reverse, brainy youtube that, at least with the piolitical debates, often ends up showcasing the lack of listening skills among academics and wannabe cable TV pundits.  The site is fascinating on at least one level — in showing how insular and self-reinforcing our communities of discourse tend to be, and the false challenges to our assumptions our discourses too often pose.  There is some elegance of thought and — more rarely — some generosity of spirit on display here — don't get me wrong — but most of the political discourse, like our politics itself, is less about ideas than egos.)

If we buy Balkin's line of thought on holding the leadership of the outgoing administration accountable for their crimes, the debate centers around the idea of choosing among three options: criminal trials, a post-Apartheid South Africa-style Truth Commission which would offer immunity to the guilty in return for complete disclosure, or ignoring the hijinks of the past eight years altogether. 

But there is one more option that's not being discussed.  Why not send them to Gitmo?  And just leave them there indefinitely?  Turnabout's fair play, and truth will out eventually.