Page 10 - Enemy Combatant News Today

About their past crimes because as long as you focus on the past crimes, you are not focusing on information to stop future attacks. so i would take that information that you need to take to be able to prosecute this guy. but i wouldnt be distracted by that. brian: 20 seconds. can you tell me if you would read him his miranda rights and put him through our court system and put him into the bringing and question him for a great period of time? >> i think he is swore an oath of allegiance to the u...

Statement, congress must act on administrations other proposals to enhance domestic security including increasing the number of immigration and customs enforcement officers, enhancing arrest and detention of integration officers and ending fraud and abuse in the immigration system. the suspect is from bangladesh but has lived in the us since 2011. lindsey graham says authorities need to gather as much intelligence as possible. to find out how people get radicalized and inspired by isis. you cant...

Guy tried to blow everybody up. >> sandra: it sounds to me like you are in direct conflict with what we heard from senator graham. senator graham said he should be charged as an enemy combatant. youre okay with him being proper -- processed in the u.s. courts. >> im in favor of doing whichever one will give us the information. you dont have to read him miranda rights. you can interrogate him for intelligence purposes. none of it will be able to be used in court if thats what you want to do. why ...

The suspect is currently in custody. a 27-year-old man police, fire department authorities, mayor and governor just confirming a crude type bomb was strapped to him and went off in a passageway from 7th and 8th avenues near time square. three people suffering non-life threatening injuries. we want to bring in south carolina senator lindsey graham on the phone. thank you for being here. your thoughts on this morning so far. >> number one, im very pleased no one got killed. i think we dodged a bul...

Senator? why would he not be treated as an enemy combatant? >> i cant think of a reason why you wouldnt. he is not trying to rob anybody. he was committing an act of terrorism and held as a suspected enemy combatant and interrogated under the law of war. he is a soldier of the caliphate and i urge the trump administration to reject obamas policies of turning the war into a crime. >> sandra: this is the second terrorist attack that weve seen in new york city in a couple of months now, senator gra...

That were interested in. but right now we have people going to the individuals who are looking at whoever he is associated with. running his name through every possible database both here and overseas to try to find out is this a lone operator, somebody associated with a radical group, are there others that we need to look at who may be planning similar events? this investigation is just at its very beginning. there are going to be thousands of officers involved. >> sandra: how will the suspect ...

Even if its a lone wolf attack, somebody who pledges allegiance to isil in their mind over the internet i want to find everything we can about what makes them tick and how they got to where theyre at. the public safety exception allows you to question somebody for a short duration of time in terms of their other devices around. i want to hold this person as a suspected enemy combatant for a few days, let the intelligence community talk to him, gather as much intel as we can and make a decision w...

>> right. >> being treated medically at bellevue hospital and we know he made some kind of a statement in or around or after the attack, although the police commissioner james oneill would not tell us exactly what he said, whether it was a pledge of allegiance to isis. go ahead, senator. >> all i can say is that this has all the signature of a terrorist attack. low tech device, not part of a bigger plot. i dont know, you dont know. what im trying to figure out here is a system that will allow us...

System, but let me ask you this, senator, what history does show us is since 2001, the 9/11 attacks, more than 600 convictions -- more than 600 terror related cases have been tried and convicted successfully in the civilian federal court system and virtually none of those has been reversed. the track record as you know for gitmo for guantanamo bay military court convictions is much, much worse. does the track record not show us someone who goes through the judicial due process, you know, without...

Need to try him in military commission. im not worried about that. i want to look at this as an intelligence gathering opportunity not solving a crime. perry mason not needed to convict this guy. >> what we dont know at this point if he has been given his miranda rights. >> right. >> sometimes they wait to provide those, specifically to find out if there is an imminent threat of other attacks at the time. we know in the other attack in new york city he waived his miranda rights. >> he did. >> th...