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...Obama rejected military tribunals during his presidential campaign and suspended them soon after he took office. By July, Obama had asked Holder to decide whether it was feasible to prosecute KSM in a civilian court. Holder chewed on that question for weeks. Meanwhile, Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, who opposed civilian trials, asked Holder to meet with Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a key centrist vote on matters of counterterrorism. Graham told Holder he strongly opposed civilian trials for the alleged 9/11 conspirators and that they could affect his support for closing Guantánamo Bay prison...
...originally planned, in the existing federal system. Holder doesn't have a feel yet for where the President will come down on the talks. "I'm just not sure where the President is on this," Holder says. A senior aide involved in the discussions says, "If there's a Rahm-Graham deal...
Also traveling with the president are Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, senior advisor David Axelrod, and national security aides Tom Donilon, Ben Rhodes and Denis McDonough...
Also traveling with the president were Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, senior advisor David Axelrod, and national security aides Tom Donilon, Ben Rhodes and Denis McDonough...
...DeLay, the former Republican leader known as "The Hammer" whose hardball tactics once earned him a rebuke from the House Ethics Committee, she has her limits. "I can think of three different instances" where during a vote Pelosi resorted to twisting arms, says White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who served as Pelosi's deputy for five years. "But on the other hand I can think of a thousand different instances where it was never needed because of the work that was done beforehand by listening and hearing and having people understand and finding what was important to people...