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Warnings to that person will stop the flow information or whether the flow of information will continue. in this particular case, is it more important for us to get intelligence from this person or is it more important for us to build the case? one of the things that we have certainly seen is that the giving of miranda warnings has not stopped these terrorist suspects from talking to us. they have continued to talk even though weve given them miranda warnings. >> is that still the case here with...

Be settled abstractly from washington from far away. its context by context, case by case. and sometimes you have to trust the people of authority to make the decisions. >> but some of this is intensely political. look, president bush tried hundreds of terror suspects in civilian courts. he tried zacarias moussaoui and richard reid in civilian courts. no one ever criticized his administration either from the left or from the right for using civilian courts. now heres president obama, perhaps bec...

Might expect to be involved in these kinds of activities. thats why we have to redouble our efforts in terms of intelligence gathering to make sure that were fully cognizant of what it is theyre planning to do, who are they trying to use in coming up with these plots. it makes our job more difficult, not one that we cant do, but certainly makes it more difficult. >> how many people right now are we tracking who are going back and forth to pakistan? >> well, 200,000 people per year go back and fo...

New york specifically that the person we thought was responsible for that attempted bombing was, in fact, in custody. >> will ksm be tried in new york? >> we are still in the process of trying to decide where that trial will occur. >> what is the holdup? everybody seems to be saying, this is a foregone conclusion its never going to new york. why wont you say it wont be there? >> were taking a look at all of our options and trying to decide where the case can best be tried. there are federal stat...

There are a variety of other things he can be tried for, we can provide him with fairness and justice in the systems that we now have in place. >> but you said, with regard to any ksm trial, failure is not an option. and yet you know full well, you send prosecutors into court every day in this country knowing that there is plenty of uncertainty. paul mcanulty, the former deputy attorney general said earlier this year with regard to the mou mow southy prosecution, "the criminal justice process is...

Views of the national security apparatus, the intelligence community. because i think there is a risk that we slide into viewing this as a law enforcement matter rather than what it is, and effort to deal with people who are attacking our country and trying to kill our people. >> love to get your opinion real quick on the presidents decision to have ksm tried in a civilian court as opposed to a military commission. do you think that was the right decision? >> i think if we had still been in offi...

There is likely a high degree of continuity between administrations. thats always the case. >> your former boss vice president cheney has been critical of this administration. do you share that view? >> i think what vice president cheneys been doing is focusing on the national security implications of some of these issues that became an important part of the political debate. it dramatizes the fact we are still under siege, there is still a war on terror, al qaeda is still coming to us and the -...

Use of force against iraq. this is a situation where some people say that it was war of preemption. i think it was a war of last resort. i think we had exhausted all diplomacy, all efforts. we had sanctioned regimes. we exhausted all efforts short of war. and its very clear when the president made his decision to go to war that the inspection regime was not getting at the truth in iraq, and that the economic sanctions which were preventing saddam hussein from using oil revenues for pressing h --...

President bush would do. now obviously president obama is looking at this thing and well see what decision he comes up with. >> i heard you say early on, case by case. you dont rule out using civilian courts. >> absolutely not. we did. this administration -- >> you dont believe it was wrong then and you dont believe it is wrong now. >> no. but i think what it right is to have a process that takes into account all the competing considerations. >> but it -- say what you will about it, it was certa...

Considered. was the secretary of views, the secretary of defenses views sought and considered? i think what the administration has said now subsequently is that they have established a process by which these decisions made by case will take into account all of the national security principles. thats what should happen. >> you said something at the beginning about elections talk about the differences, but theres more continuity. how often does the add obama administration policy team it reach out...