Nearly 25 years later, the 9/11 case still hasn't gone to trial

This year’s anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks should serve as another reminder that the criminal prosecution of the accused plotters remains in limbo. One of the biggest cases in U.S. history, and potentially one of its most consequential, has continued to unfold in something of a vacuum at the U.S. Navy base on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, against five long-held detainees. Ten additional war-on-terror detainees remain on the base; two of them also have cases in the military commissions, a court system established under President George W. Bush and amended near the start of Preside