Dick Durbin: “Can you tell me what the distinction might be, why Khalid Sheikh Mohammed should be tried in a military commission?”

These changes threaten to undermine the work of the FBI and pose a grave risk to the Bureau’s integrity.

To leave here without this being a law finalized to protect these young people … is painful, really painful. I don’t want them to feel like I’m abandoning them.

Public executions have no place in a democracy.

The lack of community involvement and speed with which this project has moved forward raises questions about the role of private interests.