"An effort by several prominent Republicans to rally opposition to Attorney General Eric Holder's plan to bring five accused 9/11 plotters to the US for trial apparently fell flat Wednesday. Despite efforts by former Bush White House adviser Karl Rove, former House Majority Leader Newt Gingrich and Liz Cheney, daughter of the former vice president, no protest erupted outside the chamber of the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday morning as Holder arrived to explain his decision to try the accused plotters, including alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, in a Manhattan courtroom. "No such message was delivered on Wednesday morning," writes Nick Baumann at Mother Jones. "When Holder arrived at the committee room in the Dirksen Building, there were no demonstrators, no angry mob."" - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet