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Have been charged with desertion, and typically, it varies from branch to branch but typically people dont get hammered too awfully hard for desertion. the other charge misbehavior before the enemy, is so rare that in the time ive been involved with military justice, since 1969 i actually cant think of a case in which that was a charge. the other thing you should know chris -- >> let me stop you for a second. >> sure. >> what does that mean? what is misbehavior before the enemy? >> well, i can b...

Personnel are with him as we speak. >> has he been notified of his miranda rights? >> im not going to get into the judicial process. i really shouldnt go there. i can just tell you that he is in u.s. custody and obviously we want to take the opportunity to talk to him and it wouldnt surprise anybody, shouldnt surprise anybody that were going to try to glean as much information as we can out of him. >> is there any information you can share about how hes being designated in terms of the legal pro...

Murder, the rest of their indictment appears to paint a picture of a fight and kill are her in the spur of the moment. its very difficult to argue on the one hand murder in the spur of the moment but premeditation at the same time. >> reporter: what was striking about todays indictment was the sheer number of witnesses that the state intends to call. more than 100 names were listed on the charge sheet. >> if they do end up calling all 107 witnesses, this could be a very, very long trial. and all...

Steenkamp claiming he mistook her for an intruder. you but the fact dont add up for some people. >> reporter: today in court oscar pistorius cried and prayed and that was before he was formally indicted, charged by the state with premeditated murder. thats the strongest charge they can bring against him. it carry as minimum sentence of 25 years. so is this an indication that the states case is water tight, that theyre confident, or is it an indication that they perhaps are overreaching themselve...

To carry this policy out out in the field. a recent review by the open society institute says this was done by the u.s. more than 130 times after 9/11, regardless of the laws of the countries in which it happened. this thing in milan, this is the only rendition case where the americans who did it got criminally charged as kids nappers. robert had planned to retire in italy, had a very nice house there, then all this unpleasantness happened. then came the investigation, the arrest ant, by the tim...

>> reporter: yes. fredericka. this will be the first time we see the five men accused of the september 11th attack since february before this hunger strike began. the first thing were looking for, are any of these five men on a hunger strike. we told the military will not include them in their figures and what is going on in their prison is a secret. fist thing we get a clichls tomorrow morning. then we get about five days of legal motions. there are 17 on the docket at the moment. not any of th...

Because he entered the country well over a year after dzhokhar tsarnaev did. it was in the pipeline. that was a troubling thing to look at. they found out the fbi interviewed him in 2011 at the request of the russians. for all those things it was not exactly moving on a fast track but it had not been denied. >> we greatly appreciate you joining us. let me bring in roger cressey, nbc news terrorism analyst. roger, we heard in great detail from pete as much as possible the latest from this charge ...

To go right from them into the court. and were going to have a clean trial here. and i would probably say that were going to see some intelligence out of abbottabad out of the court that will implicate this man in 9/11 or other crimes. >> alan, from a legal point of view, we have read all of the details of the charge sheet. on the face of it, not that strong, but as bob says, are we likely to get more meat on the bone later, do you think? >> i sure hope so. this is a very, very thin indictment. ...

Implicate this man in 9/11 or other crimes. >> alan, from a legal point of view, we have read all of the details of the charge sheet. on the face of it, not that strong, but as bob says, are we likely to get more meat on the bone later, do you think? >> i sure hope so. this is a very, very thin indictment. its a typical mafia-like indictment. it starts by describing al qaeda and then says he was part of it, then it skips to after 9/11 and says basically after 9/11 he spoke to americans and said ...

To go right from them into the court. and were going to have a clean trial here. and i would probably say that were going to see some intelligence out of abbottabad out of the court that will implicate this man in 9/11 or other crimes. >> alan, from a legal point of view, we have read all of the details of the charge sheet. on the face of it, not that strong, but as bob says, are we likely to get more meat on the bone later, do you think? >> i sure hope so. this is a very, very thin indictment. ...