House Homeland Security Committee chair Peter King of New York called the Obama adminsitration’s decision today to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in front of a military tribunal a “long-awaited step in the right direction.”

“As I have been saying since day one, these terror trials belong in a military commission at Guantanamo,” King said in a statement. “I am absolutely shocked that it took Attorney General Holder 507 days to come to this realization.”