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...held in Manhattan, and White House officials have since defended civilian trials, but not Holder himself. Says a senior Administration official: "We're all trying figure out what the correct option is, and then we'll all go out together." (Read "The Fall of Greg Craig, Obama's Top Lawyer...
...Republicans spotted the civilian-trials issue as a winner almost from the start of the Obama Administration, and it began generating heat following Holder's announcement of the KSM trial last fall and the failed Christmas Day attack on a U.S. airliner. Senators on Tuesday grilled Obama's top intelligence officials on both issues at a hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. "This is going to be an area of focus for us for the foreseeable future," says a senior GOP Senate aide...
...Democrats in Washington are struggling to find the right way to push back against those numbers. "The Administration needs to get out and make their case on this," says a top Democratic Senate aide. "They don't have a good answer right now. They have to find another venue [for the KSM trial], and until then it's hard to push back." Senate majority leader Harry Reid said on Tuesday that "the Bush Administration prosecuted hundreds of these terrorists [in civilian courts, and] 340 of them are in prison right now." He said the President would have to decide "whether...
...legislation currently in the works. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has introduced a bill defunding civilian trials for five 9/11 conspirators now held at Guantánamo Bay. But it is not clear whether there is a vehicle for his bill to reach the floor in the near future, top Senate aides say, so it may languish. A similar Graham bill was voted down by a comfortable margin last fall...
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