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Terrorism charges, or even terrorism-related charges, every single one has been handled as a civilian criminal. every single one. and of the years that have elapsed since 9/11. lets see, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, what came next? oh, yeah, 08, then there was 09. after all of the years that have elapsed since 2001, after all of those years, in which every single person arrested in this country on terrorism charges was handled as a civilian criminal, in all but one of those years, dick cheney was the...

Republicans are trying desperately to blame the obama administration for somehow doing this wrong. >> i do see, repeatedly, examples that there are key members in the administration, like eric holder, for example, the attorney general, who still insists on thinking of terror attacks against the united states as criminal acts as opposed to acts of war. >> you mentioned eric holder, the treatment of the christmas day underwear bomber. how do you think that case should have been dealt with? >> i th...

Blow up the country, you dont have a civilian trial in america in a mass population center. you turn them over to military justice, dont give them miranda rights. get as much intelligence and you can and make sure they never live to fight another day. senator brown is a former military jag officer who understands a military justice is the proper form or an enemy combatant. >> which costs more, i think mr. biden was comparing the cost of the two. >> think about the cost of this expensive circumst...

Terrorism advisor in the white house. you say he has lost your confidence, do you believe that he should -- >> absolutely. i dont see how most persons can feel safe when the head of counter terrorism says you can get all the information you need within 50 minutes of an interview of a guy who tried to blow up an airplane and tries to tell us that the process did work and say that a 20% recidivism rate is okay in the war on terror. he lost my confidence and i think he is disconnected from the thre...

You get a lawyer when you go before a h habeus judge and the judge decides whether or not the evidence justifies you being confined asin enemy combatant. in world war ii when we captured a nazi and german prisoner or japanese prisoner we didnt give them a lawyer. you capture thenmy, get them off the battlefield and question them about what the enemy is up to. you dont provide them lawyers. to say that giving anenmy combatant a lawyer within 50 minutes is crazy. we have never done this in any oth...

History without it being challenged. i dont know where he has been. where was he the last four years of the last@administration? >> the proper way to deal with it would have been to treat him as an enemy combatant. i think that was the right way to go. the thing i learned from watching that process unfold, though, was that the administration really wasnt equipped to deal with the aftermath of an attempted attack against the united states in the sense that they didnt know what to do with the guy....

Called a soldier and treated in the terms of the war, the judge said, you are not an enemy combatant. youre a terrorist. youre not a soldier in any war. to call you a soldier gives you far too much stature. war talk is out of line. youre no warrior. i know warriors. youre a terrorist. a species of criminal guilty of multiple attempted murders. i think americans cheer that and the idea that were going to let him be a warrior when he can compares himself to grch washington. >> the president said, ...

And to give the alleged christmas day airline attacker miranda rights provided under the u.s. justice system. >> let me choose my words carefully here. dick cheneys a fine fellow. hes entitled to his own opinions. hes not entitled to rewrite history. hes not entitled to his own facts. the christmas day bomber was treated the exact way that he suggested that the shoe bomber was treated -- absolutely the same way. dick cheneys a fine fellow, but he is not entitled to rewrite history without it bei...

But we have to let this process play out in terms of where and when this trial will take place. >> reporter: many republican lawmakers want him tried in a military tribunal as an enemy combatant. here is senator lindsay graham. >> putting the mastermind of 9/11 in the middle of new york city criminalizes the war. if he is not an combatant, who would be? >> gram says he supports the administration first to close the detention center in guantanamo because he talked to al-qaeda members, that gitmo ...

Abroad. when one falls into our lap, this guy has information on who trained next to him, who recruited him, what were the cell phone numbers, information we couldnt get anywhere else. we read him his rights and then told him he had the right to remain silent. we should can infair gating this guy without reading his rights as an enemy combatant and going out and capturing the terrorist leaders that can tell us where the next attack is so we can stop the guy before he gets on the plane. >> julie:...