The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 22, 2009 by John Yoo
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20091122_Closing_Arguments__No_clear_benefit_to_holding_9_11_trial_in_New_York.html
It certainly doesn’t help those who are already protected by the Bill of Rights and can be tried in civilian courts. If anything, their rights are at risk, not just by a failure to convict terrorists who killed almost 3,000 people, but by the inevitable judicial compromises that must balance the requirements of a fair public trial with the demands of protecting wartime secrets. Those compromises will no longer be limited to the special context of military courts in wartime, but will become part of the law that governs all Americans.