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Report: McCain Inserted Provision To Put Terror Suspects Into Military Custody

Ryan J. Reilly | September 6, 2011, 12:50PM

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) inserted a little-noticed provision into the National Defense Authorization Act that would put all terror suspects into immediate military custody, the National Journal reports.

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Topics: Counterterrorism, Domestic Terrorism, Eric Holder, FBI, John McCain, Military Commissions, Terror Plot, Terror Raids, Terrorism, Terrorist Watchlists

Lindsey Graham

Is Lindsey Graham Playing Both Sides On DOJ Lawyers Fracas?

Zachary Roth | March 10, 2010, 11:20AM

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)

Is Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) playing both sides on the "controversy" over Justice Department lawyers who represented Guantanamo detainees?

Yesterday, the South Carolina senator joined a growing chorus of conservatives in slamming a recent ad by Liz Cheney's advocacy group that questioned the loyalties of seven DOJ attorneys who had previously represented Gitmo detainees. The ad, by Keep America Safe, referred to the lawyers as "the Al Qaeda Seven," and asked "Whose values do they represent?"

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Topics: Chuck Grassley, Eric Holder, Guantanamo, Justice Department, Keep America Safe, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Lindsey Graham, Liz Cheney, Military Commissions, Military Tribunals, Senate Judiciary Committee

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab

Are Military Tribunals Really Tougher On Terrorists Than Criminal Courts?

Justin Elliott | February 3, 2010, 1:27PM

Flight 253 bomb attack suspect Umar Abdulmutallab

With the debate over how to handle captured terrorists heating up, it's a good time to look back at the record of how military tribunals have worked in practice, and examine the uninterrogated assumption underlying the debate: that tribunals are tougher on terrorists than the criminal justice system.

A recent study by the liberal Center for American Progress found that in the very few cases of captured terrorists being tried in tribunals, the defendants were given lighter sentences than comparable cases in the criminal justice system.