A Holder Legacy: Shifting Terror Cases to the Civilian Courts, and Winning

The New York Times: WASHINGTON — After commandos and F.B.I. agents snatched a key suspect in the 2012 attack on an American diplomatic compound in Libya, some Republican lawmakers urged the Obama administration to take him to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for a military trial, sounding what has become a common refrain — that a civilian trial for a terrorist is, among other things, too dangerous.

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