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...January, when most of Attorney General Eric Holder's friends and enemies turned against his plan to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a federal courthouse in lower Manhattan, one man stood by him. And he was a good friend to have. At a Situation Room session on Jan. 29, Holder was virtually alone in arguing for sticking with a civilian trial for KSM. A Manhattan jury, he said, would produce a quick conviction - and that image would help restore America's reputation in the world. When others in the room argued in favor of military tribunals with special...
...easy to imagine that Holder and Obama, in those private moments, might be a little bewildered - and defensive - about the way their handling of the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trial has turned out. Obama rejected military tribunals during his presidential campaign and suspended them soon after he took office. By July, Obama had asked Holder to decide whether it was feasible to prosecute KSM in a civilian court. Holder chewed on that question for weeks. Meanwhile, Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, who opposed civilian trials, asked Holder to meet with Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina...
...charge, Clark Poundstone (Greg Kinnear); gets mixed signals from Lawrie Dayne (Amy Ryan), a journalist who fed her readers government misinformation about WMD; and finds an ally in Martin Brown (Brendan Gleeson), a grizzled old CIA hand. He also gets help from a reluctant Iraqi informant named Freddy (Khalid Abdalla, playing the film's richest character) in pursuing an elusive Saddamist general, al-Rawi (Igal Naor), who may hold the secret to the mystery. The viewer is free to infer that Poundstone is L. Paul Bremer, head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, and Dayne is the New York Times' Judith...
...Graham, moreover, has brought other issues into the negotiations. "You should not be able to close Guantánamo Bay simply by putting Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a military court," Graham said on Fox News on March 5. Among the other measures he wants to see implemented is legislation that would allow holding terrorism suspects without trial or charge and a method of handling detainees who win their habeas corpus cases. Bringing KSM into a military trial, Graham said, "is a good start to find a way forward...