Padilla, after more lingering in the courts, was suddenly pulled out of military custody and put on trial in a federal court on regularcriminal charges.
Some Republicans said the U.S. should have brought Mr. Abu Ghaith to the offshore prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, rather than prepare criminal charges in a regular federal court.
Yale and other universities should advise women alleging sexual assault or rape to go directly to the police and not to campus police, who answer to university administrators, but to regular police departments, which have the appropriate resources and skills to conduct criminal investigations.