Yglesias Award Nominee

"Others will say that people like Abdulmutallab should only been tried in a military commission. That opinion, too, has fortunately been rejected by the Bush and Obama administrations. What we have learned, if anything, in the last 10 years it is that the president–any president–must have all lawful tools available to him during wartime. He must have the flexibility to use the most appropriate tool at any given time. In this case, the defendant was tried in the right venue, with a just result," – Heritage fellow Charles Stimson, on FoxNews.com.