We charged the Rosenbergs, and tried them. Why doesn't Padilla deserve the same consideration?
Yeah, and what a mistake that was. The Rosenbergs, traitors in the extreme, have been made into huge heroes of the left...by the virtue of them having been put through a public spectacle of a trial.
There is a difference, too, between the Rosenbergs and Padilla: Padilla was planning an exact attack, the Rosenbergs were peddling information.