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Today, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft appears before a Senate committee to defend the administration's counter-terrorism approach, including using military tribunals to try suspects. We'll find out what tribunals are and the questions they raise about civil liberties. Laura Knoy talks with Ruth Wedgwood, director of international law at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University www.sais-jhu.edu, and Robert Levy, constitutional expert with the CATO institute www.cato.org .