A stubborn attorney general digs his heels in:

While acknowledging the attempted Times Square car bombing highlighted the nation’s continued vulnerability, the White House is still not ruling out holding 9/11 terror trials in Manhattan.
“Unfortunately, New York and Washington, D.C., remain targets of people who would do this nation harm,” said Attorney General Eric Holder. “Regardless of where a particular trial is, where a particular event is going to occur, I think that is going to remain true and is why we have to be especially vigilant.”