Considering the large number of successfully prosecuted terrorism cases tried in the civilian federal courts (431 tried between 2001 and 2011 with an 87% conviction rate) compared with the extremely low number of such cases (7) tried by military commissions, why should the government not make exclusive use of civilian federal courts?

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