Because they yield valuable intelligence. . . if you try them, the government doesn't have leverage over them, in terms of plea-bargaining, and all the rest. . . and the longer you can just hold them, indefinitely, the longer it is that they can't serve whatever number of years they would serve before they're let go. . . and since some of these guys are really bad news. . . letting them go, is not good for most life-loving american types. . .

--Ray