Placing the detainees in military brigs on United States territory might fend off some of those challenges.

"Where they feel they can't, where they don't have the evidence," officials put the prisoner in a military brig, he said.

"They've got a matrix of all the military brigs," the official said.

"This little flap has three of my best people incommunicado in the military brig," Romaine said angrily.

Frankly, military tribunals or a life sentence in a military brig would be preferable.

Mr. Padilla has been held incommunicado at a military brig in South Carolina.

It's wrong to lock up so-called unlawful combatants on Guantánamo and in military brigs, denying them due process.

Mr. Hamdi has been held in a military brig since April of last year, without access to a lawyer.

Padilla was transferred to a military brig in Charleston, South Carolina without any notice to his attorney or family.

He is being held in a military brig in South Carolina.