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The entire Moussaoui thing is an embarrassment. Accuse a guy of doing a whole bunch of horrible things when you don't have much evidence for many of them. Then the guy pleads guilty when he probably didn't do several of the things he wants to claim he did. Then everybody involved does their best to act like courtrooms are a place for poorly behaved, slightly retarted monkeys.
Let the man have the self-glory of claiming to be more important than he was. Put him in jail for the rest of his life without trying for the death penalty (which was unlikely anyway and requires a very novel theory of what is death-penalty worthy) and everybody go home three years ago.
Dahlia Lithwick at Slate has had the whole Moussaoui fiasco pegged from the very beginning. I recommend reading her articles on the topic over the years.
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