Montreal Gazette - 9/11 casualty: Human rights

"There is no doubt that many good decisions were taken and that there may have been other initiatives to thwart terrorist attacks that were never made public," said Frédéric Mégret, Canada Research Chair in the Law of Human Rights and Legal Pluralism and an assistant professor at McGill University.

"But a robust penal system can fight terrorism without getting around judges" and without circumventing due process.