Challenges to security, secrecy would be 'overwhelming'
(NEWSER) - The Obama administration wants to try alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other Guantanamo detainees in federal courts—and that's a major mistake, says Michael Mukasey. Terrorism trials pose "overwhelming" security challenges, and classified information would have to be revealed, warns George Bush's relatively moderate third attorney general in a Wall Street Journal op ed. "The Justice Department claims that our courts are well suited to the task," he writes. "Based on my experience, they aren't." More»
