Reply #24: For a number of reasons.. and in no particular order

[bearpaw101]

1) The cost for a civilian trial is astronomical

2) The cost for special treatment while incarcerated for trial (and afterward), to insure safety etc, is also astronomical

3) Our citizenship guarantees us certain rights and priviledges that we shouldn't so casually extend to others.

4) The ability of specially trained interrogators to cull information over a longer period of time.. without the constraints of a mirandized suspect.

5) A civilian trial forces the prosecution to display (often times for public view) very sensitive and classified materials that compromise on-going terror related investigations.. and strategies that are currently being employed to combat terrorism here and abroad.

and so on, and so on...