Comment & Debate
Stuart Taylor. “No Need To Fear A Manhattan Terrorist Trial.” National Journal. November 21, 2009: “Trying the 9/11 defendants before military commissions, on the other hand, would be widely (if unfairly) denounced as designed to ensure convictions regardless of the evidence. A decision to continue holding the suspects without trial — after eight years of presidential vows to put them on trial — would be a damning admission that America is simply not up to the task of bringing war criminals to justice.”