Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University, told The Daily Beast it's "hard to overestimate the damage" Bloomberg's opposition caused.
Greenberg explained: "The inability to have closure on the 9/11 attacks... the lack of trust in the federal criminal justice system; and the perpetuation of Gitmo—it is an incalculable misstep, and it pulled the rug out from under Obama and Holder's conviction that the 9/11 trials needed to be held... on federal soil, just as [international terror cases] had always been prior to 9/11."
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