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Charles Krauthammer writes for The Washington Post Writers Group. Send comments about this article to Peter Grad, Op-Ed Page editor, at grad@northjersey.com.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. federal courts and military tribunals that will prosecute suspected terrorists vary sharply in their independence, public stature and use of evidence. The Obama administration so far has offered no clear-cut rationale for how it chooses which system will try a detainee.

The U.S. federal courts and military tribunals that will prosecute suspected terrorists vary sharply in their independence, public stature and use of evidence.

WASHINGTON -- For late-19th-century anarchists, terrorism was the "propaganda of the deed." And the most successful propaganda-by-deed in history was 9/11 -- not just the most destructive, but the most spectacular and telegenic. And now its self-proclaimed architect, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, has been given by the Obama administration a civilian trial in New York. Just as the memory fades, 9/11 has ...

WASHINGTON — The federal courts and military tribunals that will prosecute suspected terrorists vary sharply in their independence, public stature and use of evidence. But the Obama administration has so far offered no clear-cut rationale for how it chooses which system will try a detainee.The fuzzy line drawn by the administration has made it easier for critics on both the left and right to ...

WASHINGTON — The federal courts and military tribunals that will prosecute suspected terrorists vary sharply in their independence, public stature and use of evidence. But the Obama administration has so far offered no clear-cut rationale for how it chooses which system will try a detainee.

In case you didn't tune into The Washington Times' nationally syndicated radio show, "America's Morning News" - heard in Washington on WTNT-AM 570 and coast-to-coast via the Talk Radio Network - here's what four of Tuesday's guests told co-hosts Melanie Morgan and John McCaslin: - Former Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey: Mr. Mukasey, a retired chief federal judge in New York, blasted his ...

Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey warned Tuesday that trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other terrorist suspects in Manhattan could become an ugly sideshow. Mr. Mukasey presided over terrorist trials in New York City before becoming attorney general but said that was before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. "It's simply a fact of life that a jihadist, particularly somebody like Khalid ...