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"IT would be unacceptable, legally," Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina inveighed to the New York Times on September 8, "to give someone the death penalty in a trial where they never heard the evidence against them."
Such has been the distortion of President Bush's eminently sensible proposal for the trial of unlawful alien combatants--which is to say, of brutal al-Qaeda jihadists. In fact, no one, least of all the president, has proposed anything remotely like the star chamber of Graham's Michael Mooreish description. As an accomplished trial lawyer and still-active military judge, Graham ought to know better.
Graham, along with Sens. John McCain and ...