No where does it say that this was Obama's decision. The article only referred to the Obama Administration which would include the department of justice.
Probably the Attorney General decided that with the history of torture in this case, it would be difficult to get a conviction in a civilian court and decided to throw this into the military tribunal system. Probably a good decision as this is more a military matter anyway.
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