Several weeks ago, I interviewed Lindsey Graham’s staff to find out what specifically Graham’s objection was to trying Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in a civilian court. The answer: the inadvertent release of classified information. So I wrote a piece on that after I noticed that the rules for handling classified information in military commissions are substantively [...]

If the Wall Street Journal has it right, the Grahamanuel deal to swap a Khalid Shaikh Mohammed military commission for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility is inching forward in the Senate. Well, sort of. The paper claims that anonymous Democratic Senate aides “say Mr. Graham believes two other Republicans are willing to [...]