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From Inside the Beltway - Wash Times EDGING FORWARD

The plot to bomb a jetliner on Christmas Day has strengthened the assertion that there are scores of terrorists lying in wait for their opportunity to do harm to America. That means the argument over civil trial versus military tribunal for future perpetrators is bound to continue. Ergo, inquiring minds want to know: In which direction is the Obama administration likely to go with this?

"The disputes and acrimony over this kind of issue is not unique to this administration. Some people within it clearly 'get it.' " Others do not, and find themselves doing something for legal reasons, then for political reasons they must defend it," David Rivkin Jr. tells Inside the Beltway.

Mr. Rivkin served as a Justice Department and White House lawyer in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations, and is a Washington, D.C., lawyer and co-chairman of the Center for Law and Counterterrorism at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.

"There is a phrase, 'Reality bites.' Well, reality is now biting the Obama administration. I think it is inevitable that they move more and more to a military embrace, towards the laws of war paradigm, a mainstay of the Bush administration that has largely been abandoned by this one," Mr. Rivkin says.
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