ASSISTANT PROFESSOR RICHARD ALBERT, BOSTON COLLEGE LAW SCHOOL

"By choosing a civilian court over a military tribunal, the Attorney General has unfortunately chosen to prosecute the 9/11 conspirators as criminals rather than as the terrorists they really are. Civilian courts are not the proper forum within which to try terrorists because civilian courts lack the special national security procedures available in military tribunals alone. Only military tribunals are sufficiently attentive to both the strictures of the rule of law and the national security interests of the United States."

Richard Albert specializes in constitutional law and democratic theory. Prior to joining Boston College, Prof. Albert earned law and political science degrees from Harvard, Oxford and Yale. He is a frequent contributor to publications and other media outlets on questions involving politics and constitutional law.

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